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

Some day I will be better remembered.

My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things.

After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.

The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.

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

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.