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

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

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.

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 secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.

I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.

The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

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 power of application and labor, wins in the end.

I know this, and I know it from actual experience in the Orient, that the progress of modern Christian civilization has largely depended on the earnest hard work of the Christian missions of every denomination.

We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

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

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

I find that Americans completely lack sensibility and good taste. They are boring, and they all have faces like unbaked rolls.

I’ve been to the Vatican more than anyplace else outside this country in the world. I am mesmerized by it.

Australian schools have cool uniforms. I wish I had to wear a woven straw hat for maths.

The more intermediaries there are, the more problems there are.

Japan will finally open a new page for lunar exploration and space development.

The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.

I’ll be proud to say my country is committed to preventing violence against women.

We can take this country back. All we need is to nominate the right candidate. It’s no more complicated than that.