It is a protest against the way the world has worked. (explanation of Bolshevism)

I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. Our government is no longer based on the freedom of opinion, nor on the conviction and the majority decision, it is now a government which is subjected to the conviction and the compulsion of a small group of dominant men.

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

The interesting and inspiring thing about America is that she asks nothing for herself except what she has a right to ask for humanity itself.

The presidential office is not a rosewater affair. This is an office in which a man must put on his war paint.

I have come slowly into possession of such powers as I have. I receive the opinions of my day. I do not conceive them. But I receive them into a vivid mind.

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