The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America.

I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked of for that position.

In the experiences of a year of the Presidency, there has come to me no other such unwelcome impression as the manifest religious intolerance which exists among many of our citizens. I hold it to be a menace to the very liberties we boast and cherish.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

It is impossible for one who has studied at all the services of the Hebrew people to avoid the faith that they will one day be restored to their historic national home and there enter on a new and yet greater phase of their contribution to the advance of humanity.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.