I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

The press has no better friend than I am, no one who is more ready to acknowledge . . . its tremendous power for both good and evil.

Government, possessing the power to create and issue currency and credit as money and enjoying the right to withdraw both currency and credit from circulation by taxation and otherwise, need not and should not borrow capital at interest as a means of financing government work and public enterprises.

The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.

Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes... A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.