It will pass like the know-nothing days, but the sense of shame and sin should endure.

Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify the oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

There is a spark of idealism within every individual which can be fanned into flame and bring forth extraordinary results.

Organization can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgment.

Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Behind every argument lies someone's ignorance.

I rise early because no day is long enough for a day’s work.

I think all of our human Experience shows that no one with absolute power can be trusted to give it up even in part.

The statement of Mr. Justice Holmes of the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Oklahoma Bank case, is significant: “We cannot say that the public interests to which we have adverted, and others, are not sufficient to warrant the State in taking the whole business of banking under its control. On the contrary we are of opinion that it may go on from regulation to prohibition except upon such conditions as it may prescribe.