Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

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.

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.

The heart is the best logician.

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

The heritage of the past is the seed that brings forth the harvest of the future.

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.