We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

So confident am I in the intentions as well as wisdom of the government that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done either cannot or ought not to be done.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Since you cannot do good to all you are to pay special attention to those who by the accidents of time or place or circumstances are brought into closer connection with you.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart and cannot make a good soup.

The main foundations of every state new states as well as ancient or composite ones are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms and where there are good arms good laws inevitably follow.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.