Ideas control the world.

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

The divorce between Church and State ought to be absolute. It ought to be so absolute that no Church property anywhere, in any state or in the nation, should be exempt from equal taxation; for if you exempt the property of any church organization, to that extent you impose a tax upon the whole community.

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.

Liberty is no negation. It is a substantive, tangible reality.

The men who succeed best in public life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.

The right of private judgment is absolute in every American citizen.