“congress - that great, benevolent asylum for the helpless”

“When majority is insane, sane must go to asylum.”

“There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.”

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.”

“Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”

“The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivaly of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in fine, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise.”

“To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.”