You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right.

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.

Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.

When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism.

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.

I never tire of reading Tom Paine.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.