Insurrection of thought always precedes the insurrection of arms.

One on God's side is a majority.

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

What gunpowder did for war, the printing-press has done for the mind; and the statesman is no longer clad in the steel of special education, but every reading man is his judge.

Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another; but get something.

War and Niagara thunder to a music of their own.