I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle grateful that they are not worse rather than the rough handle, bitter that they are not better.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others... An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.... Power is not alluring to pure minds and is not with them the primary principle of contest.

What justice would there be to take this life? Justice, gentlemen? Why, I would just as soon put a hog in the electric chair as this.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

Health is value greater than studying.

We confide in our strength, without boasting of it, we respect that of others, without fearing it.