I have tried so hard to do the right.

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

The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.

The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that while the people should patriotically and cheerfully support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people.

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

Loyalty to the principles upon which our Government rests positively demands that the equality before the law which it guarantees to every citizen should be justly and in good faith conceded in all parts of the land.

I cannot help but think it perilous to suffer these lands or the sources of their irrigation to fall into the hands of monopolies, which by such means may exercise lordship over the areas dependent on their treatment for productiveness.