Government, in it's last analysis, is organized force.

No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.

Loyalty means nothing unless it has at its heart the absolute principle of self-sacrifice.

The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

My best training came from my father.

The things that the flag stands for were created by the experiences of a great people. Everything that it stands for was written by their lives. The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

We [Americans] have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.