For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it.

All communities are apt to look to government for too much. Even in our own country, where its powers and duties are so strictly limited, we are prone to do so…

All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.

Henry S. Commager said that the US Constitution was the best chance for political freedom, calling it a 'perfect blueprint.'

A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.

The problem of cat versus bird is as old as time. If we attempt to resolve it by legislation who knows but what we may be called upon to take sides as well in …