“A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.”

The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way

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

I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you’ve got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.

Anyone who has taken the oath I have just taken must feel a heavy weight of responsibility. If not, he has no conception of the powers and duties of the office.

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

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 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.

The game of baseball is a clean, straight game.

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.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

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

I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?

The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.

I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .

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.

People who spread happiness in your bad days are worthy of your good days.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

You’re my bad habit, on this dark planet, light up my world like stars, now they’re ashes.

Some people would love to have your bad days.

Heaven and Hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and bad.

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

If fire wasn’t bad enough the gods gave us love so if flames failed to burn us down we had each other still.

Bad experience in life does not mean that the story is going to be the same.