"The ruling parties of the country have now flung off all disguises, and have openly and shamelessly declared war upon the only saving principles known to nations."

"A man’s rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box."

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder an…"

"The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims, have been born of earnest struggle."

"The white man’s religion is a lie."