Man's rights are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.

People cut themselves off from their ties of the old life when they come to Los Angeles. They are looking for a place where they can be free, where they can do things they couldn't do anywhere else.