Ambition is a commendable attribute, without which no man succeeds. Only inconsiderate ambition imperils.

There is something inherently wrong, something out of accord with the ideals of representative democracy, when one portion of our citizenship turns its activities to private gain amid defensive war while another is fighting, sacrificing, or dying for national preservation.

I couldn't catch a ball or any of that stuff. I could do only what required brute stupidity.

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

He liked to play chess and do intelligent things, and I was a serious drinker and nonthinker.

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.

I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.