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It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous t...o an entertainment bureau. No occasion is too trivial for its promoters to invite them to attend and deliver an address.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[The political mind] is a strange mixture of vanity and timidity, of an obsequious attitude at one time and a delusion of grandeur... at another time. The political mind is the product of men in public life who have been twice spoiled. They have been spoiled with praise and they have been spoiled with abuse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We thought we were made for each other. For almost a quarter of a century she has borne with my infirmities, and I have rejoiced i...n her graces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate had ...but one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As I went about with my father when he collected taxes, I knew that when taxes were laid some one had to work to earn the money to... pay them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While I do not think it was so intended I have always been of the opinion that this turned out to be much the best for me. I had n...o national experience. What I have ever been able to do has been the result of first learning how to do it. I am not gifted with intuition. I need not only hard work but experience to be ready to solve problems. The Presidents who have gone to Washington without first having held some national office have been at great disadvantage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We draw our Presidents from the people. It is a wholesome thing for them to return to the people. I came from them. I wish to be o...ne of them again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »