Business Will Be Either Better Or Worse.

In The Discharge Of The Duties Of This Office, There Is One Rule Of Action More Important Than All Others. It Consists In Never Doing Anything That Someone Else Can Do For You.

The Property Of The People Belongs To The People. To Take It From Them By Taxation Cannot Be Justified Except By Urgent Public Necessity. Unless This Principle Be Recognized Our Country Is No Longer Secure, Our People No Longer Free.

I Sometimes Wish That People Would Put A Little More Emphasis Upon The Observance Of The Law Than They Do Upon Its Enforcement.

I Favor The Policy Of Economy, Not Because I Wish To Save Money, But Because I Wish To Save People. The Men And Women Of This Country Who Toil Are The Ones Who Bear The Cost Of The Government. Every Dollar That We Carelessly Waste Means That Their Life Will Be So Much The More Meager. Every Dollar That We Save Means That Their Life Will Be So Much The More Abundant. Economy Is Idealism In Its Most Practical Form.

Numbered Among Our Population Are Some 12,000,000 Colored People. Under Our Constitution Their Rights Are Just As Sacred As Those Of Any Other Citizen. It Is Both A Public And A Private Duty To Protect Those Rights. The Congress Ought To Exercise All Its Powers Of Prevention And Punishment Against The Hideous Crime Of Lynching, Of Which The Negroes Are By No Means The Sole Sufferers, But For Which They Furnish A Majority Of The Victims.