It is impossible to enslave, mentally or socially, a bible-reading people. The principles of the bible are the groundwork of human freedom.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Where Labor stands idle ... there is a demonstrated deficiency, not of Capital, but of brains.

If any young man is about to commence the world, we say to him, publicly and privately, Go to the West

I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot.

While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, of Political Rights freely secured to White men, is monstrously unjust and irrational.

Ease up, the play is over.