The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.

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.

I know how irritating it is to have somebody else lay down rules for your moral uplift, but you've got to stand a great deal in order to make progress.

We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.

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.

If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.

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.