The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

I had rather be defeated in a cause that will ultimately triumph than triumph in a cause that will ultimately be defeated.

I have sometimes heard men say politics must have nothing to do with business, and I have often wished that business had nothing to do with politics.

I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. Our government is no longer based on the freedom of opinion, nor on the conviction and the majority decision, it is now a government which is subjected to the conviction and the compulsion of a small group of dominant men.

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

As compared with the college politician, the real article seems like an amateur.