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

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.

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

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.

Politics makes me sick.

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.