Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself to be made a mere thing or a tool, and surrenders his inalienable rights of reason and conscience. Indeed, this slavery is more complete than that which enslaves the body alone.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

What we need to know in any case is very simple.

Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority; it is not even a minority then; but it is irresistible when it clogs by its whole weight.... If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life

Truly, our greatest blessings are very cheap.