Ambition Is A Commendable Attribute, Without Which

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.

I Have Been Thinking A Lot About These Things As I Have Come To The Realization Of The Tremendous Responsibilities Which Rest Upon Me. It Is My Conviction That The Fundamental Trouble With The People Of The United States Is That They Have Gotten Too Far Away From Almighty God. I Am Bound To Believe That In A Tumultuous Age Like Ours The Most Important And Imperative Duty Is The Reconstruction Of Humanity To Almighty God.

There Is No Relationship Here Between Church And State. Religious Liberty Has Its Unalterable Place, Along With Civil And Human Liberty, In The Very Foundation Of The Republic. I Hold It [religious Intolerance] To Be A Menace To The Very Liberties Which We Boast And Cherish.

Our Most Dangerous Tendency Is To Expect Too Much Of Government, And At The Same Time Do For It Too Little.