It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.

The force of public opinion cannot be resisted when permitted freely to be expressed. The agitation it produces must be submitted to.

Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.

I find that the harder I work , the more luck I seem to have.