Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously avoid in their political action, as well as in the discharge of their official duty, offending by a display of obtrusive partisanship their neighbors who have relations with them as public officials.

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people.

My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things.

I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.