A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Politeness [is] a sign of dignity, not subservience.

We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital.

Certain rich men, whose lives are evil and corrupt, are the representatives of predatory wealth accumulated by all forms of inequity, from the oppression of wage workers to unfair methods of crushing out competition.

To every man who faces life with real desire to do his part in everything, I appeal for a study of the Bible.

The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others.