At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the Constitution is a glorious liberty document. Read its preamble, consider its purposes. Is slavery among them? Is it at the gateway? or is it in the temple? It is neither.

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.

I do not think much of the good luck theory of self-made men. It is worth but little attention and has no practical value.

Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.

Liberty for all; chains for none.