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

Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.

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.

And let us not trust to human effort alone, but humbly acknowledging the power and goodness of Almighty God, who presides over the destiny of nations, and who has at all times been revealed in our country's history, let us invoke His aid and His blessings upon our labors.

I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there is one law for a strong nation and another for a weak one.