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

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

The seed of revolution is repression.

The history of liberty is the history of limitations on the power of government, not the increase of it. When we resist, therefore, the concentration of power, we are resisting the processes of death, because concentration of power is what always precedes the destruction of human liberties.

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

America was born a Christian nation.