We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense . . .