Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

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.

The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college.

My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.

Revolutions never go backwards.

Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.

Wants awaken intellect. To gratify them disciplines intellect. The keener the want the lustier the growth.