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

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.

Party honesty is party expediency.

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.

No investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owners as undeveloped realty. I always advise my friends to place their savings in realty near a growing city. There is no such savings bank anywhere.

The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.

I have tried so hard to do the right.