I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.

Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.

I have a Congress on my hands.

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

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies, while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel. Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people's masters.