Actually, We're Just Glorified Flagpole Sitters.

Practically All We Know Is That Thousands Of Native Haitians Have Been Killed By American Marines, And That Many Of Our Own Gallant Men Have Sacrificed Their Lives At The Behest Of An Executive Department In Order To Establish Laws Drafted By The Assistant Secretary Of The Navy. ... I Will Not Empower An Assistant Secretary Of The Navy To Draft A Constitution For Helpless Neighbors In The West Indies And Jam It Down Their Throats At The Point Of Bayonets Borne By U.s. Marines.

Ambition Is A Commendable Attribute, Without Which No Man Succeeds. Only Inconsiderate Ambition Imperils.

Less Government In Business And More Business In Government.

There Is Something Inherently Wrong, Something Out Of Accord With The Ideals Of Representative Democracy, When One Portion Of Our Citizenship Turns Its Activities To Private Gain Amid Defensive War While Another Is Fighting, Sacrificing, Or Dying For National Preservation.

I Knew That This Job Would Be Too Much For Me.