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Having treated my friend ill, I wished to apologize; but, not meeting him, I made an apology to myself.

What signifies the census--this periodical numbering of men--to one who has no friend?

The worst evil of disregard for some law is that it destroys respect for all law.

any person haled into court, who is too poor to hire a lawyer, cannot be assured a fair trial unless counsel is provided for him

Only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.

The press was to serve the governed, not the governors.

paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people and sending them off to distant lands to die of foreign fevers and foreign shot and shell

The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.

The people must know before they can act, and there is no educator to compare with the press

The evil cannot be cured or remedied by silence as to its existence.

The press and even the pulpit, in the main either by silence or open apology, have condoned and encouraged this state of anarchy.

Bad local government is certainly a great evil, which ought to be prevented; but to violate the freedom and sanctities of the suffrage is more than an evil.

Freedom can never yield its fullness of blessings so long as the law or its administration places the smallest obstacle in the pathway of any virtuous citizen.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

Cease your complaining and fretting; none of these things which you blame are the cause of your poverty; the cause is within yourself, and where the cause is, there is the remedy.

It is an evil omen of the times that men have undertaken to calculate the mere material value of the Union.

Melancholy is the condition of that people whose government can be sustained only by a system which periodically transfers large amounts from the labor of the many to the coffers of the few.

Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires.

The people themselves become the willing instruments of their own debasement and ruin.

The most serious effect upon the poor comes when dependence upon the charitable society is substituted for the natural outgoing of human love and sympathy, which, happily, we all possess in some degree.

angry people are not always wise

Politics need not be a raging fire destroying everything in its path.

We can do this if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts.

For he that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read but the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced of the contrary.