Judge Talent At Its Best And Character

Liberty Is Not A Means To A Higher Political End. It Is Itself The Highest Political End.

When The Last Of The Reformers Died, Religion, Instead Of Emancipating The Nations, Had Become An Excuse For The Criminal Art Of Despots. Calvin Preached, And Bellarmine Lectured; But Machiavelli Reigned.

I Saw In States' Rights The Only Availing Check Upon The Absolutism Of The Sovereign Will, And Secession Filled Me With Hope, Not As The Destruction But As The Redemption Of Democracy.... Therefore I Deemed That You Were Fighting The Battles Of Our Liberty, Our Progress, And Our Civilization, And I Mourn For The Stake Which Was Lost At Richmond More Deeply Than I Rejoice Over That Which Was Saved At Waterloo.

A Man Can Be Trusted Only Up To Low-water Mark.

The Issue Which Has Swept Down The Centuries And Which Will Have To Be Fought Sooner Or Later Is The People Versus The Banks.