The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.
Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.
The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.
Where the people possess no authority, their rights obtain no respect.
If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.
Not in vain has Lincoln lived, for he has helped to make this republic an example of justice, with no caste but the caste of humanity.