Our country right or wrong is an evil motto - what if your country be in the wrong? It will only compound her injury. I wish to serve the republic with an honest and fearless criticism.

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles.

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

We should not care much whether those thus united (against slavery) were designated 'Whig,' 'Free Democrat' or something else; though we think some simple name like 'Republican' would more fitly designate those who had united to restore the Union to its true mission of champion and promulgator of Liberty rather than propagandist of slavery.

We hope never to live in a Republic where one section is pinned to the other section by bayonets.

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

Answering a letter from a church asking what else they should try after having failed to raise enough money on bake sales, bazaars, suppers, etc. Why not try religion?