I favor the policy of economy, not because I wish to save money, but because I wish to save people. The men and women of this country who toil are the ones who bear the cost of the Government. Every dollar that we carelessly waste means that their life will be so much the more meager. Every dollar that we save means that their life will be so much the more abundant. Economy is idealism in its most practical form.

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

The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty-loving, God-fearing people who knew their rights, and possessed the courage to dare to maintain them.

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.

Well, farmers never have made money. I don't believe we can do much about it. But of course we will have to seem to be doing something; do the best we can and without much hope. The life of the farmer has its compensations but it has always been one of hardship.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil