The broad rich acres of our agricultural plains have been long preserved by nature to become her untrammeled gift to a people civilized and free, upon which should rest, in well-distributed ownership, the numerous homes of enlightened, equal, and fraternal citizens... Nor should our vast tracts of so-called desert lands be yielded up to the monopoly of corporations or grasping individuals, as appears to be much the tendency under the existing statute.

It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.

I have tried so hard to do the right.

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.

Loyalty to the principles upon which our Government rests positively demands that the equality before the law which it guarantees to every citizen should be justly and in good faith conceded in all parts of the land.

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

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