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.

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.

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

Thomas Paine needs no monument made with hands; he has erected a monument in the hearts of all lovers of liberty.

This spirit of mob-law is becoming as great an evil as a servile war.

If a warden sees cigarette litter being thrown from a car, they will take the number and trace the owner to send them a fine.

I find virtue to be found amongst the farmers of the country alone, not about courts, where courtiers dwell.