Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and your government when it deserves it.

Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.

This country with its institutions belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people under the pretence of taking care of them they must become happy.

But let us remember at the same time government is sacred and not to be trifled with.

As a governor I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

The essence of good government is trust.