The peace of the world must henceforth depend upon a new and more wholesome diplomacy.

God grant that the dawn of that day of frank dealing and of settled peace, concord, and coöperation may be near at hand!

Sometimes, when I am most beset, I seriously think of renting a pair of whiskers or of doing something else that will furnish me with an adequate disguise.

I have a profound intellectual contempt for men who can not see the signs of the times.

I love the fellows that come into my office sometimes and say, 'Mr. President, I am an American.'

If I want to know how many people live in a small town all I have to do is to go there and they at once line up to be counted.

I am both glad and sorry to be here; glad because I am always happy to be with you, and know and like so many of you, and sorry because I have to make a speech.

There are two reasons why the chief wish of America is for peace.

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 States.

The shortest road to a boy's moral sense is through his cuticle.

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 occasionally to knock him down.