All who wish to hand down to their children that happy republican system bequeathed to them by their revolutionary fathers, must now take their stand against this consolidating, corrupting money power, and put it down, or their children will become hewers of wood and drawers of water to this aristocratic ragocracy.

When death comes, he respects neither age nor merit. He sweeps from the earthly existence the sick and the strong, the rich and the poor, and should teach us to live to be prepared for death.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Desperate courage makes One a majority.

In a country where offices are created solely for the benefit of the people no one man has any more intrinsic right to official station than another.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.