I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens.

What I want is to get done what the people desire to have done, and the question for me is how to find that out exactly.

He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed.

The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.