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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.