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Honor lies in honest toil.
Above all, tell the truth.
I have a Congress on my hands.
I have tried so hard to do right.
Party honesty is party expediency.
I have tried so hard to do the right.
Good ball players make good citizens.
Some day I will be better remembered.
I'm only waiting for my wife to grow up.
Men and times change-but principles-never.
In calm water every ship has a good captain.
Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.
It is a condition which confronts us-not a theory.
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote.
Well, my dear fellow what did you expect, champagne?
A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.
I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.
What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!
What is the use of being elected or re-elected, unless you stand for something?
Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people.
Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.
Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.
In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.
It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.
Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.
After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws are brought forth.
The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.
My greatest trials come through those professing to be near and attached friends, who expect things.
What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?
After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.
The ship of democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those on board.
If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.
Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
I know that human prejudice - especially that growing out of race and religion - is cruelly inveterate and lasting.
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.
There is no calamity which a great nation can invite which equals that which follows a supine submission to wrong and injustice
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.
It is the responsibility of the citizens to support their government. It is not the responsibility of the government to support its citizens.
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.