We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.

We forget that there is much more patriotism in having the audacity to differ from the majority than in running before the crowd; we forget that in the resistance of the minority some of the biggest things in our own history have been accomplished, and the man who looks on the Stars and Stripes and doesn't hold a right to say nay to his neighbor, even if the neighbor is of the larger party, has forgotten the history of his country.

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

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

That is Gladstone, the greatest statesman that ever lived. I intend to be a statesman, too.

A man may be defeated by his own secondary successes.

A man's rootage is more important than his leafage.