Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis upon the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

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.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.