01/28/1916
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"I love the fellows that come into my office sometimes and say, 'Mr. President, I am an American.'"
"The shortest road to a boy's moral sense is through his cuticle."
"I felt constantly a personal detachment from the Presidency; that one thing that I resented when I was not performing the duties of the office was being reminded that I was the President of the United..."
"If I can not retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasional..."