The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.

A candle loses nothing when it lights another candle.

To consider judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions is a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy.

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.

The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits.

I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.

The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged.