I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample underfoot..

We are not one people. We are two peoples. We are a people for Freedom and a people for Slavery. Between the two, conflict is inevitable..

Ease up, the play is over..

The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest..

Duty and to-day are ours; results and futurity belong to God..

While the Right of Suffrage is conceded to thousands notoriously ignorant, vicious, and drunken, ... a Constitutional denial to Black men, as such, o….

Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, ….

The way we do things is to begin..

If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be….

Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine..

The best use of a journal is to print the largest practical amount of important truth: truth which tends to make mankind wiser, and thus happier..

Go West, young man, go West. There is health in the country, and room away from our crowds of idlers and imbeciles..

Morality and religion are but words to him who fishes in gutters for the means of sustaining life, and crouches behind barrels in the street for shel….

There is no doctrine of Christianity but what has been anticipated by the Vedas..

Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty….

Our country right or wrong is an evil motto - what if your country be in the wrong? It will only compound her injury. I wish to serve the republic wi….

Journalism kills you, but it keeps you alive as long as you're doing it..

Printer's ink is the great apostle of progress, whose pulpit is the press..

Do not lounge in the cities! There is room & health in the country, away from the crowds of idlers & imbeciles. Go west, before you are fitted for no….

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it..

Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive while you're at it..