No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

It is no credit to me to do right. I am never under any temptation to do wrong!

In the scheme of our national government, the presidency is preeminently the people's office.

Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

Minds do not act together in public; they simply stick together; and when their private activities are resumed, they fly apart again.

In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.