If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.
Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.
No person, I think, ever saw a herd of buffalo, of which a few were fat and the great majority lean. No person ever saw a flock of birds, of which two or three were swimming in grease, and the others all skin and bone.
There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism.
Progressive societies outgrow institutions as children outgrow clothes.
Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.