I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan to indulge in benevolent and charitable sentiment through the appropriation of public funds ... I find no warrant for such an appropriation in the Constitution.

What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?

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

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

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.

Good ball players make good citizens.

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.