"My position, as I suggested the other day, was fully set out in my message, wherein I stated that I thought the property that was to be benefited ought to bear some portion of the expense."
"The work could go right on and the commission report to the next Congress, and on that report the next Congress would then legislate."
"Publicity is not only the main agency of reform, it is likewise the main agency of prevention."
"It is perhaps stating the obvious to say that the press should be patriotic."
"In no small degree you are the keepers of the public conscience."
"In a republic the field which is open to the press as an instrument of clean and sound government is limitless."
"One of the strongest safeguards of the integrity of official action is publicity."
"No evidence has come to me that the next Treasury surplus will be in excess of the $252,540,000 that has already been made public."
"Nor have I any information on any supposed desire of President [sic] Hoover to stay in or leave the Cabinet."
"I haven't any information of any developments as to negotiations between the United States and France for a treaty to outlaw war, other than what has already been given to the press, our general posit..."
"This is an expensive, but amply justified, program."
"This has been brought about, not by bringing in experts from the outside, but by making people already in the service of the various branches of the Government and securing the full benefit of their k..."
"Nearly everyone connects them with economy in Government expenditures. But that is not the real answer."
"If it is not worth working for, then I do not know anything that is worth working for."
"Prosperity, with peace and contentment, is an enviable situation."
"The wisdom of that policy has been definitely shown."
"The prosperity, peace, and contentment of the people demand it."
"They have a right to have it run for their benefit."
