“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost
“Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness
“The effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies
“A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay
“Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty
“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both
“To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution
“The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.
“The reality is, all over the country the number of people in the homeless condition continues to grow. It will grow significantly as far as the eye can see. It's near crisis right now. It will certainly get there
“Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity
“No calculations of interest, no schemes of policy can do the work of love, of the spirit of human brotherhood. There can be no peace without but through peace within.
“Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf
“Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country
“The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them
“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom
“Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it courage which arises from a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner
“Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work