When an American asks for the cooperation of his fellow citizens, it is seldom refused; and I have often seen it afforded spontaneously and with great good will.

Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.

There is hardly a political question in the United States which does not sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach.

Nobody is going to occupy a place higher than I.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

The prejudice of the race appears stronger in the States that have abolished slaves than in the States where slavery still exists. White carpenters, white bricklayers, and white painters will not work side by side with the blacks in the North but do it in almost every Southern State.