I Am A Freeman And Jolly As

Free Government Cannot Long Endure If Property Is Largely In A Few Hands, And Large Masses Of People Are Unable To Earn Homes, Education, And A Support In Old Age.

Let Every Man, Every Corporation, And Especially Let Every Village, Town, And City, Every County And State, Get Out Of Debt And Keep Out Of Debt. It Is The Debtor That Is Ruined By Hard Times.

Busy Replying To Letters From Divers Office-seekers. They Come By The Dozens.

No Capitalists After Any War Were Ever So Well Paid For Money Loaned To The Nation That Carried It On. No Class Of Money-makers Ever Gained Such Prosperity By Any Other War, As Our War For The Union Brought To The Money-getters Of America. All This Was Due In Great Measure To The Rank And File Of The Union Army. Now Let No Rich Man Haggle With A Needy Veteran Of That War About His Right To A Pension!

The Best Hopes Of Any Community Rest Upon That Class Of Its Gifted Young Men Who Are Not Encumbered With Large Possessions.... I Now Speak Of Extensive Scholarship And Ripe Culture In Science And Art.... It Is Not Large Possessions, It Is Large Expectations, Or Rather Large Hopes, That Stimulate The Ambition Of The Young.