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

The people themselves must think, because the people alone can act.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.

In all the new states of the Union, land monopolization has gone on at an alarming rate, but in none of them so fast as in California, and in none of them, perhaps, are the evil effects so manifest.

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

Liberty calls to us again. We must follow her further; we must trust her fully. Either we must wholly accept her or she will not stay. It is not enough that men should vote; it is not enough that they should be theoretically equal before the law. They must have liberty to avail themselves of the opportunities and means of life; they must stand on equal terms with reference to the bounty of Nature.