It is easy to be independent when all behind you agree with you, but the difficulty comes when nine hundred and ninety-nine of your friends think you are wrong.

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

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.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.