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

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

Don’t worry over what the newspapers say. I don’t. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents – but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

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

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

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.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

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

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

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

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

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

Unless education promotes character making, unless it helps men to be more moral, more just to their fellows, more law abiding, more discriminatingly patriotic and public spirited, it is not worth the trouble taken to...

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.

A National Government cannot create good times. It cannot make the rain to fall, the sun to shine, or the crops to grow, but it can, by pursuing a meddlesome policy, attempting to change economic...

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.

No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat...

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

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

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

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.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

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.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

Politics makes me sick.

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