The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man.

Hunger does not breed reform; it breeds madness and all the distemper's that make an ordered life impossible.

Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it will seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.

We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.

Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if an hour, I am ready now.