Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

It would be difficult to conceive a finer example of true sport.

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

Can those entrusted with the gravest authority set any example save that of the sternest obedience to the law?

One insidious practice which sugar-coats the dose of Federal intrusion is the division of expense . . .

It is accordance with our determination to refrain from aggression and build up a sentiment and practice among nations more favorable to peace, that we ratified a treaty for the limitation of naval armaments made in 1921, earnestly sought for a further extension of this principle in 1927, and have secured the consent of fourteen important nations to the negotiation of a treaty condemning recourse to war, renouncing it is an instrument of national policy, and pledging each other to seek no solution of their disagreements except by pacific means.

We have too much legislating by clamor, by tumult, by pressure. Representative government ceases when outside influence of any kind is substituted for the judgment of the representative.