We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.

We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.

Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!

I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?

I do not think that there is any doubt about where I stand in respect to boycotts. If there is, I will just state what I think about them. They are illegal and ought to be suppressed. I would never countenance that which recognizes their legality.

I would like to have an ample fund to spread the light of Republicanism, but I am willing to undergo the disadvantage to make certain that in the future we shall reduce the power of money in politics for unworthy purposes.