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

Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.

Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be blessed with a proud name, one that parents will employ for generations to instill the values of honesty, independence, and above all, courage in their sons.

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

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.

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

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.