Officeholders Are The Agents Of The People,

A Government For The People Must Depend For Its Success On The Intelligence, The Morality, The Justice, And The Interest Of The People Themselves.

In These Sad And Ominous Days Of Mad Fortune Chasing, Every Patriotic, Thoughtful Citizen, Whether He Fishes Or Not, Should Lament That We Have Not Among Our Countrymen More Fishermen.

I Can Find No Warrant For Such An Appropriation In The Constitution, And I Do Not Believe That The Power And Duty Of The General Government Ought To Be Extended To The Relief Of Individual Suffering Which Is In No Manner Properly Related To The Public Service Or Benefit.

The Best Results In The Operation Of A Government Wherein Every Citizen Has A Share Largely Depend Upon A Proper Limitation Of The Purely Partisan Zeal And Effort And A Correct Appreciation Of The Time When The Heat Of The Partisan Should Be Merged In The Patriotism Of The Citizen. ... At This Hour The Animosities Of Political Strife, The Bitterness Of Partisan Defeat, And The Exultation Of Partisan Triumph Should Be Supplanted By An Ungrudging Acquiescence In The Popular Will And A Sober, Conscientious Concern For The General Weal. ... Public Extravagance Begets Extravagance Among The People.

I Cannot Help But Think It Perilous To Suffer These Lands Or The Sources Of Their Irrigation To Fall Into The Hands Of Monopolies, Which By Such Means May Exercise Lordship Over The Areas Dependent On Their Treatment For Productiveness.