Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while people should patriotically and cheerfully support their Government its functions do not include the support of the people

Public officers are the servants and agents of the people, to execute the laws which the people have made.

He mocks the people who proposes that the government shall protect the rich and that they in turn will care for the laboring poor.

Though the people support the government, the government should not support 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