One of the first lessons a president has to learn is that every word he says weighs a ton.

A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an instrument of tyranny. It condemns the citizen to servitude.

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily increases.

Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.

No one ever lost his job by listening too much.

We cannot weaken or destroy political parties in ther United States without weakening or destroying the rule of the people.... Those who support party organization and submit to party discipline are supporting the only course yet discovered for orderly government by the people.