 Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law. |
| I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else. |
| I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other. |
| I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe. |
| I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me. |
| A government is for the benefit of all the people. |
| The world is not going to be saved by legislation. |
| No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people. |
| If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. |
| We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government. |
| Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood. |
| Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever. |
| I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God. |
| Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America. |
| No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win. |
| Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man. |
| A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad. |
| Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity. |
| The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much. |
| Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea. |
