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

I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.

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.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.

Men and times change-but principles-never.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.