Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

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

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.

The communism of combined wealth and capital, the outgrown of overweening cupidity and selfishness which assiduously undermines the justice and integrity of free institutions, is not less dangerous than the communism of oppressed poverty and toil which, exasperated by injustice and discontent, attacks with wide disorder the citadel of misrule.