Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

The heart is the best logician.

Experience is a safe light to walk by, and he is not a rash man who expects to succeed in future from the same means which have secured it in times past.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

No class is safe unless government is so arranged that each class has in its hands the means of protecting itself. That is the idea of republics.

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

Organize, and stand together. Claim something together, and at once; let the nation hear a united demand from the laboring voice, and then, when you have got that, go on after another; but get something.