One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United States.

We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.

I don't know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.

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 true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.