That which is unjust can really profit no one; that which is just can really harm no one.

That alone is wise which is just; that alone is enduring which is right.

Compare society to a boat. Her progress through the water will not depend upon the exertion of her crew, but upon the exertion devoted to propelling her. This will be lessened by any expenditure of force in fighting among themselves, or in pulling in different directions.

I propose to beg no question to shrink from no conclusion, but to follow truth wherever it may lead.

Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.

There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.

As it becomes more and more difficult to get land, so will the virtual enslavement of the laboring-classe s go on. As the value of land rises, more and more of the earnings of labor will be demanded for the use of land, until finally nothing is left to laborers but the wages of slavery -- a bare living.