We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

The blessing always comes back to the door of the author.

Most governments have been based, practically, on the denial of equal rights of menours began, by affirming those rights. They said, some men are too ignorant, and vicious, to share in government. Possibly so, said we; and, by your system, you would always keep them ignorant, and vicious. We proposed to give all a chance; and we expected the weak to grow stronger, the ignorant wiser; and all better, and happier together.

There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed.

The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right.