Henry Ward Beecher: “And so great are the achievements of labor that everybody honors it.”

Mariners might as well blame you for the swing and toss of their craft when tides troop in or march out of your harbor, as us, for heaving to that tide which God swells under us.

The whole chance of Right, and the whole theory of Liberty, springs from that part of man that lies beyond this life.

It will go on to a crisis; its settlement will be an era in the world's history, either of advance or of decline.

Whatever may have been the evils, the agitation has only come through men, not from them.