No man can make a speech alone. It is the great human power that strikes up from a thousand minds that acts upon him, and makes the speech.

The people are responsible for the character of their Congress.

I would rather believe something and suffer for it, than to slide along into success without opinions.

History is but the unrolled scroll of prophecy.

Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.

The chief instrument of American statistics is the census, which should accomplish a two-fold object. It should serve the country by making a full and accurate exhibit of the elements of national life and strength, and it should serve the science of statistics by so exhibiting general results that they may be compared with similar data obtained by other nations.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.