Theodore Roosevelt was always getting himself in hot water by talking before he had to commit himself upon issues not well-defined.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

A colored man is precisely as much entitled to submit his candidacy in a party primary, as is any other citizen. The decision must be made by the constituents to whom he offers himself, and by nobody else.

One day the President and Mrs. Coolidge were visiting a government farm. Soon after their arrival they were taken off on separate tours. When Mrs. Coolidge passed the chicken pens she paused to ask the man in charge if the rooster copulates more than once each day. "Dozens of times, was the reply." "Please tell that to the President," Mrs. Coolidge requested. When the President passed the pens and was told about the roosters, he asked "Same hen every time?" "Oh no, Mr. President, a different one each time." The President nodded slowly, then said, "Tell that to Mrs. Coolidge."

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.

I do not want to see any of the people cringing supplicants for the favor of the Government, when they should all be independent masters of their own destiny.