Government is only a necessary evil, like other go-carts and crutches. Our need of it shows exactly how far we are still children. All governing overmuch kills the self-help and energy of the governed.

The hand entrusted with power becomes, either from human depravity or esprit de corps, the necessary enemy of the people

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.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

Statutes are mere milestone, telling how far yesterday's thought had traveled; and the talk of the sidewalk today is the law of the land. With us, law in nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.