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The President cannot make clouds to rain and cannot make the corn to grow, he cannot make business good; although when these things occur, political parties do claim some credit for the good things that have happened in this way.
Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (1916)
The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion or enactment.
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
Attributed Robert J. Schoenberg (1992)
Some men are graduated from college cum laude, some are graduated summa cum laude, and some are graduated mirabile dictu.
Attributed David G. Plotkin (1955)
Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.
Attributed David G. Plotkin (1955)
Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.
Attributed Archibald W. Butt (1930)
Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever.
Attributed Henry Fowles Pringle (1939)
I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simply to hear other people talk.
Attributed Archibald W. Butt (1930)
Don't worry over what the newspapers say. I don't. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents - but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.
Attributed Henry Pringle (1939)
The publishers profess to be the agents of heaven in establishing virtue and therefore that they ought to receive some subsidy from the government. I can ask no stronger refutation to this claim … than the utterly unscrupulous methods pursued by them in seeking to influence Congress on this subject.
Attributed Henry Fowles Pringle (1939)