A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves |
A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. |
After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth. |
And still the question, "What shall be done with our ex-Presidents?" is not laid at rest; and I sometimes think Watterson's solution of it, "Take them out and shoot them," is worthy of attention |
come at the most pleasant season of the year, nearly midway between the Fourth of July and Thanksgiving, and would fill a wide gap in the chronology of legal holidays. |
He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor. |
He who takes the oath today to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States only assumes the solemn obligation which every patriotic citizen - on the farm, in the workshop, in the busy marts of trade, and everywhere - should sh |
Honor lies in honest toil. |
I had a political consultant tell me that with my name, she could easily get me elected to the Supreme Court. If I were going to forge a credit card, would I put on a name that called attention to it? |
I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor. |
I have tried so hard to do the right. |
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. |
I played him in a movie. |
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. |
It is a condition which confronts us - not a theory. |