I cannot help but think it perilous to suffer these lands or the sources of their irrigation to fall into the hands of monopolies, which by such means may exercise lordship over the areas dependent on their treatment for productiveness.

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.

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

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

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.

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

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.