“A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.”

My impression about the Panama Canal is that the great revolution it is going to introduce in the trade of the world is in the trade between the east and the west coast of the United States.

The true Mason does not hold or teach the attitude that, I am a Master Mason now and thus I no longer need to be concerned with using the working tools because they were given in the earlier degrees.

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.

The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

The true Mason’s level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.

The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.

In the public interest, therefore, it is better that we lose the services of the exceptions who are good Judges after they are seventy and avoid the presence on the Bench of men who are not able to keep up with the work, or to perform it satisfactorily.

The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.

There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach – it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.

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

The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.

The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.

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.

There is not a subject in which I take a deeper interest than I do in the development of Alaska, and I propose, if Congress will follow by recommendations, to do something in that territory that will make it move on.

I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don’t like me.

We want Google to be the third half of your brain.

On my worst days my brain tries to trick me into wishing i stayed. Its really trying to convince me that i didn’t deserve to survive.

The possibilities of your brain are the main key to achieve success.

Let’s give this one more try. My brain’s having contractions from those late-night interactions.

There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them – the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.

I don’t wish to be without my brains, tho’ they doubtless interfere with a blind faith which would be very comfortable.