To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

This war, disguise it as they may, is virtually nothing more or less than perpetual slavery against universal freedoms.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.

A man who will enslave his own blood, may not be safely relied on for magnamity.

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

No people to whom liberty is given can hold it as firmly and wear it as grandly as those who wrench their liberty from the iron hand of the tyrant.