Honor lies in honest toil.
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.
Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
Patriotism is no substitute for a sound currency.
Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.
A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end.
In calm water every ship has a good captain.
The paramount duty of maintaining public order and defending the interests of our own people may require the adoption of measures of restriction, but they should not tolerate the oppression of individuals of a special race.
And let us not trust to human effort alone, but humbly acknowledging the power and goodness of Almighty God, who presides over the destiny of nations, and who has at all times been revealed in our country’s history, let us invoke His aid and His blessings upon our labors.
Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity.
Above all, tell the truth.
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.
I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
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.
No investment on earth is so safe, so sure, so certain to enrich its owners as undeveloped realty. I always advise my friends to place their savings in realty near a growing city. There is no such savings bank anywhere.
It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge.
The friendliness and charity of our countrymen can always be relied upon to relieve their fellow citizens in misfortune.
If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.