Our country was thereby saved from the consequences of its distracting individualistic conception of democracy, and its merely legal conception of nationality. It was because the followers of Jackson and Douglas did fight for it, that the Union was preserved.

The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

The popular will cannot be taken for granted, it must be created.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.