Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent hardworking honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then we elected them.

We call ourselves public servants but I'll tell you this: we as public servants must set an example for the rest of the nation. It is hypocritical for the public official to admonish and exhort the people to uphold the common good.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

I have no other view than to promote the public good and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

And this our life exempt from public haunt finds tongues in trees books in the running brooks sermons in stones and good in everything.

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.

God is even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Italy has piled up huge public debt because the successive governments were too close to the life of ordinary citizens too willing to please the requests of everybody thereby acting against the interests of future generations.