"I think that the species of oppression by which democratic nations are menaced is unlike anything which ever before existed in the world."

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."

"The American people are a people of shopkeepers, and they are always thinking of their own private interests."

"When I see the American people, I am struck with the thought that they are a people born to be free."

"It is difficult to imagine how many of those who love liberty, and who sincerely desire it, are yet ready to give it up at the first alarm."