I must, in candor, say I do not think myself fit for the Presidency.

I don't expect politicians to solve anybody's problems. We've got to take the world by the horns and solve our own problems. The world owes us nothing, each and every one of us, the world owes us not one single thing. Politicians or whoever.

The Union, in any event, won't be dissolved. We don't want to dissolve it, and if you attempt it, we won't let you.

I have been occupying a position, since the Presidential election, of silence, of avoiding public speaking, of avoiding public writing. I have been doing so because I thought, upon full consideration, that was the proper course for me to take.

What a terrible era in which idiots govern the blind.

They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.