Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power

The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish Government, presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established Government.

The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.

In principle any revolt strengthens the government it fails to overthrow.

The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.

Nothing is more natural to men in office, than to look with peculiar deference towards that authority to which they owe their official existence.

Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.

We can have no "50-50" allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all.

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 % Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.

The three most ancient opinions concerning God are Anarchia, Polyarchia, and Monarchia. The first two are the sport of the children of Hellas, and may they continue to be so. For Anarchy is a thing without order; and the Rule of Many is factious, and thus anarchical, and thus disorderly. For both these tend to the same thing, namely disorder; and this to dissolution, for disorder is the first step to dissolution. But Monarchy is what we hold in honor.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.