Neither do I acknowledge the right of Plymouth to the whole rock. No, the rock underlies all America: it only crops out here.

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

The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business.

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.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

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

How prudently most men creep into nameless graves, while now and then one or two forget themselves into immortality.