The hydra of corruption is only scotched, not dead. An investigation kills and it and its supporters dead. Let this be had.

The brave man, inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts her in the hour of danger.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

Unless you become more watchful in your states and check the spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that...the control over your dearest interests has passed into the hands of these corporations.

The mischief springs from the power which the monied interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges which they have succeeded in obtaining, and unless you become more watchful in your states and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of government have been given or bartered away.

It is a well-settled principle of the international code that where one nation owes another a liquidated debt which it refuses or neglects to pay the aggrieved party may seize on the property belonging to the other, its citizens or subjects, sufficient to pay the debt without giving just cause of war.

Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.