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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.

Well, I have one consolation. No candidate was ever elected ex-president by such a large majority!

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.

There is no "but" in it. The way to be an administration Senator is to vote with the Administration.

We have passed the time of ... the laisser-faire [sic] school which believes that the government ought to do nothing but run a police force.

I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

We, as Unitarians, may feel that the world is coming our way.

The true Mason takes full responsibility for the condition of his character and ever strives for its perfection.

A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.

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.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

The true Mason is ever vigilant for subtle traces of character and personality flaws which daily experience brings out.

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

Repeat mantra: Donuts are not vitamins, donuts are not ...

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.

The true Mason always carries his working tools everywhere.

There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means.

If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.

I am glad to be going. This is the lonesomest pace in the world?

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

The cheerful loser is a sort of winner.

The City that knows how.

Politics makes me sick.

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.

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.

We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage.

Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and act the gentleman.

We are all dependent upon the investment of capital.

Too many people don't care what happens so long as it doesn't happen to them.

I am going to do what I think is best for the country, within my jurisdiction and power, and then let the rest take care of itself.

The precepts of the Gospel were universally the obligations of Masonry.

The true Mason is the Tiler of the Temple of the Heart.

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.

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

We passed the Children's Bureau bill calculated to prevent children from being employed too early in factories.

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.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgement.

The truth is that in my present life I don't remember that I ever was president

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

Politics make me sick

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

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

We have a government of limited power under the Constitution, and we have got to work out our problems on the basis of law.

The true Mason never hesitates to use the working tools to correct personal flaws.

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.