There Can Be No Permanent Disfranchised Peasantry

It Is The High Privilege And Sacred Duty Of Those Now Living To Educate Their Successors And Fit Them, By Intelligence And Virtue, For The Inheritance Which Awaits Them.

The Divorce Between Church And State Should Be Absolute.

[i]t Would Be Unjust To Our People And Dangerous To Our Institutions To Apply Any Portion Of Revenues Of The Nation Or Of The States To The Support Of Sectarian Schools.

Nobody But Radicals Have Ever Accomplished Anything In A Great Crisis. Conservatives Have Their Place In The Piping Times Of Peace; But In Emergencies Only Rugged Issue Men Amount To Much.

I Am Trying To Do Two Things: Dare To Be A Radical And Not A Fool, Which Is A Matter Of No Small Difficulty.