From Martin Kelly,
Your Guide to American History.
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"Politics when I am in it, makes me sick."

"Machine politics and the spoils system are as much an enemy of a proper and efficient government system of civil service as the boll weevil is of the cotton crop."

"A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad."

"Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood."

"Presidents may go to the seashore..., Cabinet Officers may go about the country..., but the machinery of Washington continues to operate under the army of faithful non-commissioned officers, and the great mass of governmental business is uninterrupted."

"Anti-semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut out. It has no place in America."

"I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am President the less of a party man I seem to become."

"Presidents come and go, but the Supreme Court goes on forever."

"Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which, united with that of personal liberty, has contributed more to the growth of civilization than any other institution established by the human race."

"Don't sit up nights thinking about making me President for that will never come and I have no ambition in that direction. Any party which would nominate me would make a great mistake."