There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.

I have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty, and business liberty, and every other kind of liberty, in the phrase that is common in the sporting world, 'A free field and no favor.'

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

It does not become America that within her borders, where every man is free to follow the dictates of his conscience, men should raise the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit and heart of America.

No nation is fit to sit in judgement upon any other nation.

I am not one of those who believe that a great standing army is the means of maintaining peace, because if you build up a great profession those who form parts of it want to exercise their profession.

Whatever may be said against the chewing of tobacco, this at least can be said of it, that it gives a man time to think between sentences.