All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.

The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart...

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.

In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.

Intellect is stronger than cannon.

No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.