“Politics make me sick.”

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.

The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey.

Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.

A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker.

No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

The United States should get rid of its militias.

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.