Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

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.

Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.