Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood..

I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution..

The President can exercise no power which cannot be fairly and reasonably traced to some specific grant of power in the Federal Constitution or in an….

If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do..

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..

The man with the average mentality, but with control, with a definite goal, and a clear conception of how it can be gained, and above all, with the p….

Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not..

Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to sec….

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..

The cheerful loser is a sort of winner..

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage..

Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government..

Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them..

We can't have a decent government unless those in power exercise self restraint..

The secret of Masonry, like the secret of life, can be known only by those who seek it, serve it, live it. It cannot be uttered; it can only be felt ….

The scope of modern government in what it can and ought to accomplish for its people has been widened far beyond the principles laid down by the old ….

We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories..

The world is not going to be saved by legislation..

Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly….