There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization.

Public debt [is] a burden on all the people.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

There are always those who are willing to surrender local self-government and turn over their affairs to some national authority in exchange for a payment of money out of the Federal Treasury. Whenever they find some abuse needs correction in their neighborhood, instead of applying the remedy themselves they seek to have a tribunal sent on from Washington to discharge their duties for them, regardless of the fact that in accepting such supervision they are bartering away their freedom.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

If American democracy is to remain the greatest hope of humanity, it must continue abundantly in the faith of the Bible