"An educated fool is a sorry spectacle, but he is not nearly so dangerous to society as a rich fool."
"I haven't any legislative program that I can announce at the present time."
"It does not seem possible to me to make an adequate expression concerning the Presidency of the United States."
"I can only express my simple thanks to all those who have contributed to this result and plainly acknowledge that it has been brought to pass through the work of a Divine Providence, of which I am but..."
"I have no object except to promote their welfare."
"I have no appeal, except to the common sense of all the people."
"Your management has been superb."
"A part of that success is due to you gentlemen who are here in the room and have done more to interpret me and my policies to the country than I could do myself."
"The right action of all of us is made up of the right action of each one of us."
"That is the ballot box."
"The only way to be free is to exercise actively and energetically the privileges, and discharge faithfully the duties which make freedom."
"Sometimes we refer to it as the rule of the people."
"America, more thoroughly than any other country, has adopted a system of self government."
"That is a function which cannot be delegated, which cannot be postponed."
"No decision that the people have made in any great crisis has ever shown that faith in them has been misplaced."
"The immediate and pressing obligation for tomorrow is that each one of us who is qualified shall vote."
"The people of our country are sovereign."
"The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself."
