I firmly believe that the army of persons who urge greater and greater centralization of authority and greater and greater dependence upon the Federal Treasury are really more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arrayed against us.

The Founders conceived government as the servant, not the master of the individual.

The true purpose of education is to prepare young men and women for effective citizenship in a free form of government.

The United States Constitution has proven itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and Senators and Congressmen and Government officials but the voters of this country.

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government.