Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution . .

Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.

Masonry, according to the general acceptation of the term, is an art founded on the principles of geometry, and devoted to the service and convenience of mankind. But Freemasonry, embracing a wider range and having a nobler object in view, namely, the cultivation and improvement of the human mind, may with more propriety be called a science, inasmuch as, availing itself of the terms of the former, it inculcates the principles of the purest morality, though its lessons are for the most part veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols.

I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.

I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.

I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution.