"Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile."

"Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government."

"Regardless of what one's attitude towards prohibition may be, temperance is something against which, at a time of war, no reasonable protest can be made."

"You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box."

"If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."

"A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities."

"I am not unconscious of the persuasive power exerted by these considerations to drag men along in the current but I am not at liberty to travel that road."