The business of the country is business.

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay the taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil. It is your fellow workers who are ordered to work for the Government, every time an appropriation bill is passed. The people pay the expense of government, often many times over, in the increased cost of living. I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.

In a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law.

One with the law is a majority.

There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

Human nature provides sufficient distrust of all that is alien, so that there is no need of any artificial supply.

The only hope of a short war is to prepare for a long one.