I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.

The admitted right of a government to prevent the influx of elements hostile to its internal peace and security may not be questioned, even where there is not treaty stipulation on the subject.

I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.

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

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

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