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.

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.

What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?

I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!

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