Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering.

Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.

Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics.

It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest.

Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character.

Kings and such are just as funny as politicians.