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

The protection of the masses has in all times been the pretense of tyranny - the plea of monarchy, of aristocracy, of special privilege of every kind. The slave owners justified slavery as protecting the slaves.

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.

As Mazzini said ... it is around the standard of duty rather than around the standard of self-interest that men must rally to win the rights of man. And herein may we see the deep philosophy of Him who bade men love their neighbors as themselves. In that spirit, and in no other, is the power to solve social problems and carry civilization onward.

Property in land is as indefensible as property in man.

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