1. “Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.”
2. “The history of liberty is a history of resistance.”
3. “There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.”
4. “A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.”
5. “I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I borrow.”
6. “The seed of revolution is repression.”
7. “The man who is swimming against he stream knows the strength of it.”
8. “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”
9. “Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.”
10. “If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”
11. “The ear of the leader must ring with he voice of the people.”
12. “Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.”
13. “Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.”
14. “He is not a true an of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.”
15. “Never attempt to murder a man who is committing suicide.”
