It is getting time for Christmas and you don't want to work anyway.

We will have some appointments of interest during the afternoon, I hope.

I am certainly considering successors.

It is hereby ordered that the public lands in secs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, T. 10 S., R. 86 W., 6th P.M., Colorado, be and the same are hereby withdrawn from settlement, location, sale, entry and all forms of appropriation…

The greatest catastrophe that could come to our country is that administration policies or legislation or voluntary movements shall be encouraged or enacted upon the basis of emotion, not upon facts and reason.

My conception of government leads me to the firm conviction that we have arrived at a time in our history, because of the increasing complexity of our civilization and the delicacy of its adjustments, when we must make doubly certain that…

I have even searched through the intimate history of my predecessors since George Washington, endeavoring earnestly to discover remedies, antidotes, sedatives, irritants, stimulants, and experience.

The important thing I have observed from an inspection of 30 administrations is that there is nothing new on this subject.

THE PRESIDENT considers that the misjudged youths calling themselves Communists who have been arrested for demonstrating in front of the Executive offices should be released and sent to their parents.

The most dangerous animal in the United States is the man with an emotion and a desire to pass a new law.

That voice when raised in human cause is the most potent force in the world today.

Never in our history has the press played so large a part or incurred so great a responsibility in our foreign relations as at present.

Presidents have long since learned that one of the undisclosed articles in the Bill of Rights is that criticism and digging of political graves are reserved exclusively to members of the legislative arm.

It is my belief that this is a vital means of government by the people and for the people, now that the people have ceased to live the simple life.

He does not believe that any such discourtesy seriously endangers the Republic and that a night in jail is only doing them a favor of cheap martyrdom.

Some people become impatient with the length of debate.

As the appropriations for these activities will be exhausted about January 1, 1930, I hope that the estimates will receive the early consideration of Congress.

I have only one announcement, and that is that the President-elect [Pascual Ortiz Rubio] of Mexico will come to Washington on the 26th of December, and he will be received as a most distinguished guest.