A government is for the benefit of all the people.

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.

I have an intense personal interest in making the use of American capital in the development of China an instrument for the promotion of the welfare of China, and an increase in her material prosperity without entanglements or creating embarrassment affecting the growth of her independent political power, and the preservation of her territorial integrity.

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

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.

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

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