Property belongs to man and not man to property.

We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.

The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.

We want men who will fix their eyes on the stars, but who will not forget that their feet must walk on the ground.

The hardest lessons to learn are those that are the most obvious.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.

Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.