Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice

The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.

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

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

No investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owners as undeveloped realty. I always advise my friends to place their savings in realty near a growing city. There is no such savings bank anywhere.

Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.