"When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property."
"It is better to abolish monopolies in all cases than not to do it in any."
"The most sacred of the duties of government is to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens."
"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and to bid defiance to the laws of their country."
"religious institutions guard against state absolutism, and that whenever--any time a totalitarian regime takes over a people group the first thing it has to do is it has to crush the ability of the pe..."
"I think Thomas Jefferson said it best, that religious institutions guard against state absolutism."
"An educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people."
"an educated citizenry is a vital requisite for our survival as a free people."
"Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights."
"I would prefer to have a free press without government than a government without free press."
"We can tolerate error as long as truth is free to combat it."
"An allocation of war powers to Congress provides an effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the executive to the legislative body."