I will not believe our labors are lost. I shall not die without a hope that light and liberty are on a steady advance.

The same facts impress us differently.

I don't want them to kill no hog . . . . I want a man to go to that chair, on his own two feet.

Never spend your money before you have earned it.

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.

We do not mean to count or weigh our contributions by any standard other than that of our abilities.

All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view. The palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of god. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.