Workmen’s compensation, hours and conditions of labor are cold consolations, if there be no employment.

Public debt [is] a burden on all the people.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

Self-government means self support.

The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view.

Your ability to face setbacks and disappointments without giving up will be the measure of your ability to succeed.

A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his candidacy in a party primary, as is any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself, and by nobody else.