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.
The day is not far distant when three Stars and Stripes at three equidistant points will mark our territory: one at the North Pole, another at the Panama Canal, and the third at the South Pole. The whole hemisphere will be ours in fact as, by virtue of our superiority of race, it already is ours morally.
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.
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.
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
Politics makes me sick.
A government is for the benefit of all the people.
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.
Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
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.
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.
I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.
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.
