America was born a Christian nation.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

I would not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with great respect of the past.

A sure sign of an amateur is too much detail to compensate for too little life.

What is the use of voting? We know that the machines of both parties are subsidized by the same persons, and therefore it is useless to turn in either direction.

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

Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise. Once and again one of those great influences which we call a Cause arises in the midst of a nation. Men of strenuous minds and high ideals come forward.... The attacks they sustain are more cruel than the collision of arms.... Friends desert and despise them.... They stand alone and oftentimes are made bitter by their isolation.... They are doing nothing less than defy public opinion, and shall they convert it by blows. Yes.