We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that today is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.

I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.

I think I might as well give up being a candidate. There are so many people in the country who don't like me.

Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America.

Politics makes me sick.

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade with each becomes more valuable to the other.

No, the only things which do not bother me are the elements. I can overcome them without a fight. All one has to do to get the best of the elements is to stand pat and one will win.

The world is not going to be saved by legislation.

I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.

A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad.

I do not believe in the divinity of Christ, and there are many other of the postulates of the orthodox creed to which I cannot subscribe.

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.

I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become.

Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man.

Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken without developing new evils requiring new remedies.

Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.

I am president now, and tired of being kicked around.

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

As the Republican platforms says, the welfare of the farmer is vital to that of the whole country.

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.

The Masonic Fraternity is one of the most helpful mediating and conserving organizations among men and I have never wavered from that childhood impression but it has stood steadfastly with me through the busy vast hurrying years.

The underlying principle of Masonry is the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man. In this war we are engaging in upholding these principles and our enemies are attacking them.

The laws were not made so much for the direction of good men, as to circumscribe the bad.

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.

The unions claim the deck is stacked against them when it comes to labor laws, but the truth is many private and public sector workers are forced to pay union dues as a condition of their employment, yet they have little say in how the unions spend their money.

Nature's laws must be obeyed, and the period of decline begins, and goes on with accelerated rapidity.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at some point.

There are no good laws but such as repeal other laws.

What is crucial is there be laws.

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms.

They will sustain the constitution and laws and institutions of the United States, and be the champions of liberty and of that constitution when its integrity shall be threatened.

When we fled from the oppressions of kings and parliaments in Europe, to found this great Republic in America, we brought with us the laws and the liberties, which formed a part of our heritage as Britons.