"If you put a chain around the..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People say law but they mean wealth.”

“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”

“The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashes of genius.”

“We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not, among the most religious and instructed men of the most religious and civil nations, a reliance on the moral sentiment, and a sufficient belief in the unity of things to persuade them that society can be maintained without artificial restraints, as well as the solar system; or that the private citizen might be reasonable, and a good neighbor, without the hint of a jail or a confiscation.”

“Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.”

“When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.”

“I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do, to see a plan adopted for the abolition of it - but there is only one proper and effectual mode by which it can be accomplished, and that is by Legislative authority: and this, as far as my suffrage will go, shall never be wanting.”

“In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded.”

“I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia.”