“I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves”

One of the greatest favors that can be bestowed upon the American people is economy in government.

Economy is the method by which we prepare today to afford the improvements of tomorrow.

Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.

Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.

There have been great men with little of what we call education. There have been many small men with a great deal of learning. There has never been a great people who did not possess great learning.

We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.

Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort.

The most common commodity in this country is unrealized potential.

No matter what anyone may say about making the rich and the corporations pay taxes, in the end they come out of the people who toil.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge, it is always simple and direct.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country.

Life is one darn thing after another.

The speed with which we in the Congress are going down is sometimes frightening. Government administration in the districts is rapidly reaching a low level. No strong opposition party has been able to emerge.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

A constitution defines and limits the powers of the government it creates. It therefore follows, as a natural and also a logical result, that the governmental exercise of any power not authorized by the constitution is an assumed power, and therefore illegal.

It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

As an Indian, I would like to back my government.

Let’s get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let’s take a stand for personal freedom.