No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.

I first saw the light in the city of Boston in the year 1857.

No republic can long exist unless a substantial equality in the wealth of citizens prevails.

People nowadays interchange gifts and favors out of friendship, but buying and selling is considered absolutely inconsistent with the mutual benevolence which should prevail between citizens and the sense of community of interest which supports our social system. According to our ideas, buying and selling is essentially anti-social in all its tendencies. It is an education in self-seeking at the expense of others, and no society whose citizens are trained in such a school can possibly rise above a very low grade of civilization

The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.

An American credit card is just as good in Europe as American gold used to be.

With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter of the race is ended. Its summer has begun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis. The heavens are before it.