Sourced Quotes

• God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a "consumer" shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with "unalienable rights."
  • "The Status of Annexed Territory and of Its Free Civilized Inhabitants" in North American Review, vol. 172, no. 530, January 1901, p. 22.

• I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.
  • "RAIN STILL FOLLOWS HIM; THE PRESIDENT'S VERMONT TRIP MARKED BY STORMS. HE TALKED ABOUT THE WAR YESTERDAY AT RUTLAND AND PRAISED THE STATE'S SOLDIERS -- THE DEMONSTRATION AT PROCTOR." Speech in Rutland, VT on August, 28, 1891 as reported by The New York Times, August 29, 1891, Wednesday, Page 5 NYT PDF Archive Page

Unsourced Quotes

• I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

• We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

• The virtues of courage and patriotism have given recent proof of their continued presence and increasing power in the hearts and over the lives of our people. [First Inaugural Address]