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.

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

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Honor lies in honest toil.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

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.

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