Next In Importance To Freedom And Justice

Now More Than Ever The People Are Responsible For The Character Of Their Congress. If That Body Be Ignorant, Reckless, And Corrupt, It Is Because The People Tolerate Ignorance, Recklessness, And Corruption. If It Be Intelligent, Brave, And Pure, It Is Because The People Demand These High Qualities To Represent Them In The National Legislature. . . . If The Next Centennial Does Not Find Us A Great Nation . . . It Will Be Because Those Who Represent The Enterprise, The Culture, And The Morality Of The Nation Do Not Aid In Controlling The Political Forces.

[it Is Possible] That The Race Of Red Men ... Will, Before Many Generations, Be Remembered Only As A Strange, Weird, Dream-like Specter, Which Has Passed Once Before The Eyes Of Men, But Had Departed Forever.

It Is Not Part Of The Functions Of The National Government To Find Employment For People - And If We Were To Appropriate A Hundred Millions For This Purpose, We Should Be Taxing Forty Millions Of People To Keep A Few Thousand Employed.

I Have Had Many Troubles In My Life, But The Worst Of Them Never Came.

Heroes Did Not Make Our Liberties; They But Reflected And Illustrated Them.