The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

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

Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; but by the awakening of thought and the progress of ideas. Until there be correct thought, there cannot be right action; and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.