I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

I am trying to do two things: dare to be a radical and not a fool, which is a matter of no small difficulty.

Tortured for the Republic.

I admitted, that the world had existed millions of years. I am astonished at the ignorance of the masses on these subjects. Hugh Miller has it right when he says that 'the battle of evidences must now be fought on the field of the natural sciences.'