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

I have tried so hard to do the right.

I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.

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

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the government, but they should scrupulously avoid in their political action, as well as in the discharge of their official duty, offending by a display of obtrusive partisanship their neighbors who have relations with them as public officials.

In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.

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