Life is one darn thing after another.

You have to stand every day three or four hours of visitors. Nine-tenths of them want something they ought not to have. If you keep dead-still they will run down in three or four minutes. If you even cough or smile they will start up all over again.

We cannot permit any inquisition either within or without the law or apply any religious test to the holding of office. The mind of America must be forever free.

I have noticed that nothing I never said ever did me any harm.

Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation.

Wealth comes from industry and from the hard experience of human toil. To dissipate it in waste and extravagance is disloyalty to humanity.

The words of the President have an enormous weight and ought not to be used indiscriminately.