Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.

The best results in the operation of a government wherein every citizen has a share largely depend upon a proper limitation of the purely partisan zeal and effort and a correct appreciation of the time when the heat of the partisan should be merged in the patriotism of the citizen. ... At this hour the animosities of political strife, the bitterness of partisan defeat, and the exultation of partisan triumph should be supplanted by an ungrudging acquiescence in the popular will and a sober, conscientious concern for the general weal. ... Public extravagance begets extravagance among the people.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.

After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.

The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of restriction, but they should not tolerate the oppression of individuals of a special race.

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