A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

Liberty is its own reward.

I believe in Democracy because it releases the energies of every human being.

Every one at the bottom of his heart cherishes vanity; even the toad thinks himself good-looking,--"rather tawny perhaps, but look at his eye!

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

The truth is we are all caught in a great economic system which is heartless.

We are in the presence of a new organization of society. Our life has broken away from the past.