“Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.” — Wendell Phillips

What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.

The labor movement means just this: it is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty; power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.