Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

In life you don't get everything you pay for, but you must pay for everything you get.

We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with Americans.

If we ever get free from all the oppressions and wrongs heaped upon us, we must pay for their removal. We must do this by labor, by suffering, by sacrifice, and, if needs be, by our lives, and the lives of others.

They who study mankind with a whip in their hands will always go wrong.