Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers.

The keener the want the lustier the growth.

Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.

The labor movement means just this: It is the last noble protest of the American people against the power of incorporated wealth.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice. A crazy sentimentalism, like that of Peter the Hermit, hurled half of Europe upon Asia, and changed the destinies of kingdoms.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.