Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.
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.
Politics makes me sick.
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.
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.
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 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.
I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.
The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
The world is not going to be saved by legislation.
We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.
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.