The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful.

Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.

That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'.

In all that people can do for themselves, government ought not to interfere.

I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them.