TuesdayMar 17, 2026
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Honor lies in honest toil.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
Though the people support the government, the government should not support the people.
When more of the peoples sustenance is exacted through the form of taxation than is necessary to meet the just obligations of government and expenses of its economical administration, such exaction becomes ruthless extortion and a violation of the fundamental principles of free government.
I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people.
I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
I have tried so hard to do the right.
Party honesty is party expediency.
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
I know there is a Supreme Being who rules the affairs of men and whose goodness and mercy have always followed the American people, and I know He will not turn from us now if we humbly and reverently seek His powerful aid.
It is a condition which confronts us, not a theory.
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