"The President is the last person in the world to know what the people really want and think." — James A. Garfield

I love to deal with doctrines and events. The contests of men about men I greatly dislike.

Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.

A law is not a law without coercion behind it.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.