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 have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.

The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.

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

The truth is, the whole administration under Roosevelt was demoralized by the system of dealing directly with subordinates. It wasobviated in the State Department and the War Department under [Secretary of State Elihu] Root and me [Taft was the Secretary of War], because we simply ignored the interference and went on as we chose.... The subordinates gained nothing by his assumption of authority, but it was not so in the other departments.