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 sincerely hope that the incoming Congress will be alive, as it should be, to the importance of our foreign trade and of encouraging it in every way feasible. The possibility of increasing this trade in the Orient, in the Philippines, and in South America is known to everyone who has given the matter attention.

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.

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'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 President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow. He cannot make business good, although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way

The policy of dollar diplomacy is one that appeals alike to idealistic humanitarian sentiments, to dictates of sound policy, and strategy, and to legitimate commercial aims.