In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.

Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

I can find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution, and I do not believe that the power and duty of the General Government ought to be extended to the relief of individual suffering which is in no manner properly related to the public service or benefit.

It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.

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

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.