What I am anxious to do is to get the best bill possible with the least amount of friction.... I wish to avoid [splitting our part...y]. I shall do all in my power to retain the corporation tax as it is now and also force a reduction of the [tariff] schedules. It is only when all other efforts fail that I'll resort to headlines and force the people into this fight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The judiciary has fallen to a very low state in this country. I think your part of the country has suffered especially. The federa...l judges of the South are a disgrace to any country, and I'll be damned if I put any man on the bench of whose character and ability there is the least doubt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I am defeated for the next nomination, I think it will be by [Charles Evans] Hughes. And I don't think he will allow his name t...o be used unless he really feels that I have no chance to win. I do not think Theodore Roosevelt will allow his name to come before the convention.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I believe that Harmon would be the easiest to defeat, though he might gain much strength from the Republicans. Clark would surely ...lose New York. I am beginning to feel that by some stroke of genius they may name Woodrow Wilson, and that seems a pretty hard tussle.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Doctor, I want you to make it known to your government that it can trust us implicitly, for we do not want any of your territory. ...We only want your trade.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I prefer an income tax, but the truth is I am afraid of the discussion which will follow and the criticism which will ensue if the...re is an other division in the Supreme Court on the subject of the income tax. Nothing has injured the prestige of the Supreme Court more than that last decision, and I think that many of the most violent advocates of the income tax will be glad of the substitution in their hearts for the same reasons. I am going to push the Constitutional amendment, which will admit an income tax without questions, but I am afraid of it without such an amendment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She does not realize that the only difference between us is that she is on one stage and I on another. I feel that I am acting jus...t as much as she is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »