It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he is not a great man.

You know, I have found in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

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.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution and the law. While there may be those of high intelligence who violate the law at times, the barbarian and the defective always violate it. Those who disregard the rules of society are not exhibiting a superior intelligence, are not promoting freedom and independence, are not following the path of civilization, but are displaying the traits of ignorance, of servitude, of savagery, and treading the way that leads back to the jungle.

Our country represents nothing but peaceful intentions toward all the earth, but it ought not to fail to maintain such a military force as comports with the dignity and security of a great people.

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