Every Age Has Its Temptations, Its Weaknesses,

I Too Mean To Be Out Of Politics. The Ratification Of The Fifteenth Amendment Gives Me The Boon Of Equality Before The Law, Terminates My Enlistment, And Discharges Me Cured.

I Regard The Inflation Acts As Wrong In All Ways. Personally I Am One Of The Noble Army Of Debtors, And Can Stand It If Others Can. But It Is A Wretched Business.

The Melancholy Thing In Our Public Life Is The Insane Desire To Get Higher.

Crimes Increase As Education, Opportunity, And Property Decrease. Whatever Spreads Ignorance, Poverty And, Discontent Causes Crime.... Criminals Have Their Own Responsibility, Their Own Share Of Guilt, But They Are Merely The Hand.... Whoever Interferes With Equal Rights And Equal Opportunities Is In Some Real Degree, Responsible For The Crimes Committed In The Community.

Universal Suffrage Should Rest Upon Universal Education. To This End, Liberal And Permanent Provision Should Be Made For The Support Of Free Schools By The State Governments, And, If Need Be, Supplemented By Legitimate Aid From National Authority.