Woodrow Wilson: “The law of supply and demand, I am sorry to say, has been replaced by the law of unrestrained selfishness.”

Very little reflection would lead any one to conclude that the measure would not furnish in any substantial degree the relief sought by the producers of most of the staple commodities which it covers.

I regret that I am not able to see in the condition of the world at large or in the needs of the United States any such change as would justify the restriction upon that minimum which is proposed by the House Joint Resolution.

If there ever was a time when America had anything to fear from foreign competition, that time has passed.

I shall adopt twenty of these children as my own temporary wards.