"[T]he people seem to have deposited the..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“The value of science to a republican people, the security it gives to liberty by enlightening the minds of its citizens, the protection it affords against foreign power, the virtue it inculcates, the just emulation of the distinction it confers on nations foremost in it; in short, its identification with power, morals, order and happiness (which merits to it premiums of encouragement rather than repressive taxes), are considerations [that should] always [be] present and [bear] with their just weight.”

“We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.”

“I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.”

“More and more Congressmen now stay in Washington all year-round because they can't stay at home under the laws they've passed.”

“That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.”

“Government is not a warfare of interests.”

“A republic may be called the climate of civilization.”

“To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the abandonment of the effort to secure in the industrial world the spirit of democratic fair dealing.”

“A republic will avoid war unless the avoidance might create conditions that are worse than warfare itself. Sometimes, the dispositions of those who choose to make themselves our enemies leaves us no choice.”