"Without clear comprehension of the direction from which we have come, we can not chart the direction in which we should go."
"We have built our institutions around the rights of the individual."
"No more enticing subject for discussion exists than the success with which our country has been blessed from the Revolutionary period down to the present hour."
"We reach the conclusion that it is desirable to understand the principles and policies which have contributed to our success and attempt to continue to keep them in operation."
"If the American Revolution had one note that was more dominant than another, it was the principle that the people were competent to run their own business and manage their own government."
"We have every desire to see that great people, who are traditional friends, restored to their position among the nations of the earth."
"I should like very much to have a measure for helping the farmer in accordance with my various messages to the Congress."
"It almost seems to me as though the protection of the people and the property in the lower Mississippi that need protection has been somewhat lost sight of."
"This undertakes to have the United States go in and assume the entire burden."
"It becomes a bestowal of favors on certain localities and naturally if one locality is to be favored, all the other localities in the United States think that they ought to come in under the same plan..."
"It leaves the United States Government also to pay all the major costs of maintenance, which it has never done before."
"That is a dog that is very much attached to my wife and he is very disconsolate in the absence of his mistress."