The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

Men do not make laws. They do but discover them.

We insist on producing a farm surplus, but think the government should find a profitable market for it. We overindulge in speculation, but ask the government to prevent panics. Now the only way to hold the government entirely responsible for conditions is to give up our liberty for a dictatorship. If we continue the more reasonable practice of managing our own affairs we must bear the burdens of our own mistakes. A free people cannot shift their responsibility for them to the government. Self-government means self-reliance.

The government can supply no substitute for enterprise.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

If the people lose control of the arteries of trade and the natural sources of mechanical power, the nationalization of all industry should soon be expected. Our forefathers were alert to resist all encroachments upon their rights. If we wish to maintain our rights, we can do no less.