Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

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

I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there is one law for a strong nation and another for a weak one.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice

The laboring classes constitute the main part of our population. They should be protected in their efforts peaceably to assert their rights when endangered by aggregated capital and all statutes on this subject should recognize the care of the State for honest toil and be framed with a view of improving the condition of the workingman

I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.

In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.