We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists--believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.

Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

What is at the heart of all national problems? It is that we have seen the hand of material interest sometimes about to close upon our dearest rights and possessions.

Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

They do not need our praise. They do not need that our admiration should sustain them. There is no immortality that is safer than theirs. We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves drank.

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