In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.

He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen . . . should share with him. . . . Your every voter, as surely as your Chief Magistrate, under the same high sanction, though in a different sphere, exercises a public trust.

Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.

Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

When more of the people's sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.

Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.