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Taxation, like a lot of other things, is based on supply and demand. The government demands, and we supply.

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries within itself the causes of its destruction.

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the "money touch," but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers.

The will of the people shall be the basis of th authority of government...

The government has a very critical role to play in a very large range of social problems but social problems will be solved only after every organization pitches in to help.

Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear; and the next they revile. When they do not command the people's faith, some will lose faith in them, and then they resort to oaths! But of the best when their task is accomplished, their work done, the people all remark, "We have done it ourselves.

Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.[The Motto Of The U.S. Postal Service]

The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are -- . Security to possessors; . Facility to acquirers; and, . Hope to all.

I have never accepted what many people have kindly said -- namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.

Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a "taxing-machine;" to the contented, a "machine for securing property." Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.