Anybody will do for you, but not for me.

Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object

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.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

Everybody appreciates a compliment.

I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present.