I have never been able to make up my mind entirely about the benefits that this bill would secure to the farmers, and for that reason I have had it under investigation by experts.

If my investigation leads me to that conclusion, I shall favor it.

I haven't yet been able to make up my mind about a successor to Mr. Denby.

I have only had a telegram and a short note from the Attorney General since he left Washington.

It is very pressing, and an important problem.

We want a man of course of ability and character, and if I can find a great merchant, or if I can find the head of a great industrial or manufacturing establishment that would meet the requirements that I have in mind, I shall submit his…

If it will be beneficial to the farmers, I think the country ought to adopt it, even though it might cost something out of the public treasury, though it is claimed that that would not be the case under the provisions of the bill.

The America which Washington founded does not mean we shall have everything done for us, but that we shall have every opportunity to do everything for ourselves.

It is liberty only through the acceptance of responsibility.

Under the Constitution of the United States there is neither any peasantry nor any order of nobility.

When there is a failure it is not because the system has failed, but because we have failed.

For the purpose of insuring liberty, for enactment of sound legislation, for the administration of even-handed justice, for the faithful execution of the laws, no institutions have ever given greater promise or more worthy performance than…

He left the world stronger and better. He made life broader and sweeter.

Self-government does not purge us of all our faults, but there are very few students of the affairs of mankind who would deny that the theory upon which our institutions proceed gives the best results that have ever been given to any…

I am willing at all times to give the press anything I can give without embarrassing the cause of the public service.

It is especially desirable from every point of view of which I can think.

In that direction I think our commercial welfare lies to a good deal of an extent.

It is desirable in the first place to maintain the most friendly relations between North and South America.