The fundamental idea...is that the country belongs to the people, that it is in process of making for the enrichment of the lives of all of us.

We may make mistakes-but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.

To bring about government by oligarchy, masquerading as democracy, it is fundamentally essential that practically all authority and control be centralized in our Federal government. . . The individual sovereignty of our states must first be destroyed.

People die, but books never die.

The hopes of the Republic cannot forever tolerate either undeserved poverty or self-serving wealth.

We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.

Our security is not a matter of weapons alone. The arm that wields them must be strong, the eye that guides them clear, the will that directs them indomitable.