No Congress of the United States ever assembled, on surveying the state of the Union, has met with a more pleasing prospect than that which appears at the present time. In the domestic field there is tranquillity and contentment, harmonious relations between management and wage earner, freedom from industrial strife, and the highest record of years of prosperity.

It is all the more necessary under a system of free government that the people should be enlightened, that they should be correctly informed, than it is under an absolute government that they should be ignorant. Under a republic the institutions of learning, while bound by the constitution and laws, are in no way subservient to the government.

Of course, the accumulation of wealth cannot be justified as the chief end of existence.

I want the people of America to be able to work less for the government, and more for themselves

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

I always enjoy animal acts.

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.