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

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.

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

That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.

I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.

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.

Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

We don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Film-making was not at all what I had expected.

The winner asks, “May I help?” The loser asks, “Do you expect me to do that?”

Expect poison from the standing water.