The evil works from a bad center both ways. It demoralizes those who practice it and destroys the faith of those who suffer by it in the efficiency of the law as a safe protector

There is no constitutional or legal requirement that the President shall take the oath of office in the presence of the People but there is so manifest an appropriateness in the public induction to office of the chief executive officer of the nation that from the beginning of the Government the people to whose service the official oath consecrates the officer, have been called to witness the solemn ceremonial

I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately houses, or products of the mill or field are our country? It is a spiritual thought that is in our minds.

Sir, I wish to understand the true principles of the Government. I wish them carried out. I ask nothing more.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.