I don't know whither we are drifting, but I do know where every real thinking patriot will stand in the end, and that's by the Constitution.

The true Mason's level of discernment increases with every use of the working tools, because the true Mason is ever working on him/her self.

He [Roosevelt] has made some speeches that indicate that he is going quite beyond anything that he advocated when he was in the White House, and has proposed a program which is absolutely impossible to carry out except by a revision of the Constitution.

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

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 do not allow myself to be moved by anything except the law. If there has been a mistake in the law, or if I think there has beenperjury or injustice, I will weigh the petition most carefully, but I do not permit myself to be moved by more harrowing details, and I try to treat each case as if I was reviewing it or hearing it for the first time from the bench.

I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become.