Sometimes I wake at night in the White House and rub my eyes and wonder if it is not all a dream.
Our citizens have the right to protection from the incompetency of public employees who hold their places solely as the reward of partisan service.
I cannot help but think it perilous to suffer these lands or the sources of their irrigation to fall into the hands of monopolies, which by such means may exercise lordship over the areas dependent on their treatment for productiveness.
William McKinley has left us a priceless gift in the example of a useful and pure life, in his fidelity to public trusts and in his demonstration of the value of kindly virtues that not only ennoble but lead to success.
The wage earner relies upon the ventures of confident and contented capital. This failing him, his condition is without alleviation, for he can neither prey on the misfortune of others nor hoard his labor.
Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.
Men and times change-but principles-never.
I have a Congress on my hands.
Being president means leaving one’s name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be blessed with a proud name, one that parents will employ for generations to instill the values of honesty, independence, and above all, courage in their sons.
I’m only waiting for my wife to grow up.
Unskilled in sophistry and new to the darker ways of national politics, Grover Cleveland faced his accusers, his slanderers, and his judges, the sovereign people, conscious of the general rectitude of his life, and courageously determined to bear the burdens of his sins in so far as guilt was his.
The appointing power of the Pope is treated as a public trust, and not as a personal perquisite.
I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there is one law for a strong nation and another for a weak one.
In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not among our countrymen more fishermen.
Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.
Loyalty to the principles upon which our Government rests positively demands that the equality before the law which it guarantees to every citizen should be justly and in good faith conceded in all parts of the land.
The admitted right of a government to prevent the influx of elements hostile to its internal peace and security may not be questioned, even where there is not treaty stipulation on the subject.
Well, my dear fellow what did you expect, champagne?
I can find no warrant for such appropriation in the Constitution.
The trusts and combinations – the communism of pelf – whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven.
What do you imagine the American people would think of me if I wasted my time going to the ball game?