The sin of slavery is one of which it may be said that without the shedding of blood there is no remission.

There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

Now more than ever the people are responsible for the character of their Congress. If that body be ignorant, reckless, and corrupt, it is because the people tolerate ignorance, recklessness, and corruption. If it be intelligent, brave, and pure, it is because the people demand these high qualities to represent them in the national legislature. . . . If the next centennial does not find us a great nation . . . it will be because those who represent the enterprise, the culture, and the morality of the nation do not aid in controlling the political forces.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

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