"Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me.”

“Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil].”

“It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power.”

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”

“I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases.”

“For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.”

“There is an old saying that the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race.”

“Democracy is the road to socialism.”

“In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.”