The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.