Parties do not maintain themselves. They are maintained by effort. The government is not self-existent. It is maintained by the effort of those who believe in it. The people of America believe in American institutions, the American form of government and the American method of transacting business.

The world is full of educated derelicts.

We do not need more knowledge, we need more character!

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

There is no justification for public interference with purely private concerns.

I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.

The property of the people belongs to the people. To take it from them by taxation cannot be justified except by urgent public necessity. Unless this principle be recognized our country is no longer secure, our people no longer free.