Governments are necessarily continuing concerns. They have to keep going in good times and in bad. They therefore need a wide margin of safety. If taxes and debt are made all the people can bear when times are good, there will be certain disaster when times are bad.

Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.

The chief business of America is business.

One with the law is a majority.

Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

I guess I am not naturally energetic. I like to sit around and talk.