I Was Spent Up. I Sure Grabbed

I Am Not Fit For This Office And Should Never Have Been Here.

I Continued With Whatever 'qualified Climbers' I Could Con Into This Rather Unpromising Venture.

The Black Man Should Seek To Be, And He Should Be Encouraged To Be, The Best Possible Black Man And Not The Best Possible Imitation Of A White Man.

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.

In The Experiences Of A Year Of The Presidency, There Has Come To Me No Other Such Unwelcome Impression As The Manifest Religious Intolerance Which Exists Among Many Of Our Citizens. I Hold It To Be A Menace To The Very Liberties We Boast And Cherish.