"No other men deserve so well of this country as those to whom we owe it that we now have a country."
"Leadership is necessary in order that we may get really good results out of a high average of individual character."
"By virtue of the power vested in me by the said act of Congress, do hereby declare and make known that all of the unallotted lands in said reservation... will, on and after the sixteenth day of July, ..."
"Each applicant who shows himself duly qualified will be registered and given a nontransferable certificate to that effect, which will entitle him to go upon and examine the lands to be opened hereunde..."
"The Government should have power by its agents to examine into the conduct of the railways."
"The facts set forth in this report are for the most part not disputed."
"The time has come when no oil or coal lands held by the Government, either upon the public domain proper or in territory owned by the Indian tribes, should be alienated."
"The hands of the Government have been greatly strengthened in securing an effective remedy by the recent decision of the Supreme Court."
"This three-quarters of a million represents the profit that the Standard Oil Company obtains at the expense of the railroads; but of course the ultimate result is that it obtains a much larger profit ..."
"It is highly desirable that an element of competition should be introduced by the passage of some such law as that which has already passed the House, putting alcohol used in the arts and manufactures..."
"The danger nowadays is, not that the innocent man will be convicted of crime, but that the guilty man will go scot-free."
"The result has been a miscarriage of justice."