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.

The Government is able to afford a suitable army and a suitable navy. It may maintain them without the slightest danger to the Republic or the cause of free institutions, and fear of additional taxation ought not to change a proper policy in this regard.

The truth is that in my present life I don't remember that I ever was president.

As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not merely as a matter of convenience or comfort, but as a matter of stern necessity.

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

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.

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.