We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

The prosperity of Masonry as a means of strengthening our religion and propagating true brotherly love, is one of the dearest wishes of my heart, which, I trust, will be gratified by the help of the Grand Architect of the Universe.

There is no legislation--I care not what it is--tariff, railroads, corporations, or of a general political character, that all equals in importance the putting of our banking and currency system on the sound basis proposed in the National Monetary Commission plan.

One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.

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 prefer an income tax, but the truth is I am afraid of the discussion which will follow and the criticism which will ensue if there is an other division in the Supreme Court on the subject of the income tax. Nothing has injured the prestige of the Supreme Court more than that last decision, and I think that many of the most violent advocates of the income tax will be glad of the substitution in their hearts for the same reasons. I am going to push the Constitutional amendment, which will admit an income tax without questions, but I am afraid of it without such an amendment.