Governments do not make ideals, but ideals make governments. This is both historically and logically true. Of course the government can help to sustain ideals and can create institutions through which they can be the better observed, but their source by their very nature is in the people. The people have to bear their own responsibilities. There is no method by which that burden can be shifted to the government. It is not the enactment, but the observance of laws, that creates the character of a nation.

After order and liberty, economy is one of the highest essentials of a free government.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

What we need in appointive positions is men of knowledge and experience who have sufficient character to resist temptations.

The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.

The fundamental precept of liberty is toleration.