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.

Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.

That all may be so, but when I begin to exercise that power I am not conscious of the power, but only of the limitations imposed on me.

I wish to reiterate all the reasons which [my predecessor] has presented in favor of the policy of maintaining a strong navy as the best conservator of our peace with other nations and the best means of securing respect for the assertion of our rights of the defense of our interests, and the exercise of our influence in international matters.

We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.

I don't know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.

That we can come here today and in the presence of thousands and tens of thousands of the survivors of the gallant army of Northern Virginia and their descendants, establish such an enduring monument by their hospitable welcome and acclaim, is conclusive proof of the uniting of the sections, and a universal confession that all that was done was well done, that the battle had to be fought, that the sections had to be tried, but that in the end, the result has inured to the common benefit of all.