He who sees the truth, let him proclaim it, without asking who is for it or who is against it.

Social progress makes the well-being of all more and more the business of each.

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.

The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will.

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 tolerance of wrong dulls our sense of its injustice. Men may become accustomed to theft, murder, even to slavery - that sum of all villainies - so they see no injustice in it, yet that which is unjust is unjust still.

Man is the only animal whose desires increase as they are fed; the only animal that is never satisfied.