I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them.

The lobby is the army of the plutocracy.

Any one who believes that any great enterprise of an industrial character can be started without labor must have little experience of life.

The truth is that cupidity, selfishness, envy, malice, lust, vindictiveness, are constant vices of human nature.

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

The great force for forging a society into a solid mass has always been war.

The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.