"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 th..."
"I have only had a telegram and a short note from the Attorney General since he left Washington."
"I have an inquiry here about the McNary-Haugen bill."
"I am in entire sympathy with the objects of this bill, which is to benefit the wheat raisers."
"It is very pressing, and an important problem."
"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 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 und..."
"When there is a failure it is not because the system has failed, but because we have failed."
"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."
"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..."
"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 ..."