“ Fifty thousand Government officers, with a hundred thousand subordinates, form an immense political agency of the Administration, and a great machinery by which the President will enforce his re-election.
Just think of the Treasury of the United States as a great campaign fund. Is this a Government for the people and through the people? Do you believe this Government belongs to the people? If so you had better divest yourself of the peasant delusion. This Government does not belong to the people. ”

“ If the President was clothed with the arbitrary power to declare an act of war, as he has done, his powers are as arbitrary as those of the Emperor of Germany, for this potentate has not even the power to overrule the officers and legislators of the empire. If the President of the United States shows no respect for the laws of the Nation, what can be expected from officers of the lower grade? ”

“ It would signify an indorsement of the man who violated the Constitution. It would signify a sanction of the violation of the Constitution.
I know that there are Germans sympathizing with this movement, but not giving it their support, for fear of loss in business. Such reasons for withholding their support from a great National movement, when such great interests are at stake, are too small. The Germans have become at last a great people, and it is now time they ceased to be a people of small cheesemongers. They should not consider small losses in business when the Republic is in danger. ”