"As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending."

"Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments."

"Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission."

"War is a blessing compared with national degradation."

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

"I think what we have in this country is a little more dangerous in a way because it can't be seen fully. It's sorta internal censorship. We censor each other."

"If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement."

"I don't compromise my principles for politics."