Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people. From these great tasks both of the old parties have turned aside. Instead of instruments to promote the general welfare they have become the tools of corrupt interests, which use them impartially to serve their selfish purposes. Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics, is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for the consumers. Wherever in any bus…

We stand equally against government by a plutocracy and government by a mob. There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furn…

We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord.

Corruption ought not to be an inevitable product of democracy.

And we have so much work to do in America, because all across America, there are walls ... There's a wall around Washington, D.C. The American people are, toda…

No greater mistake can be made than to think that our institutions are fixed or may not be changed for the worse. ... Increasing prosperity tends to breed indi…