Nothing is easier than spending public money. It does not appear to belong to anybody. The temptation is overwhelming to bestow it on somebody.

It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be correctly informed, than it is under an absolute government that they should be ignorant. Under a republic the institutions of learning, while bound by the constitution and laws, are in no way subservient to the government.

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

As I went about with my father, when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid someone had to work hard to earn the money to pay them.

Man everywhere has an unconquerable desire to be the master of his own destiny.

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

No enterprise can exist for itself alone.