I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.

I am all kinds of a democrat, so far as I can discover but the root of the whole business is this, that I believe in the patriotism and energy and initiative of the average man.

Every great man of business has got somewhere a touch of the idealist in him.

I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

When I give a man an office, I watch him carefully to see whether he is swelling or growing.

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.