Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

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.

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.

Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!

Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

It is but the littleness of man that seeth no greatness in trifles.