There is no power that can stay the progress of such a people.

Foreign Service officers in charge of Consulates General take place and precedence immediately after Brigadier Generals in the Army or Marine Corps.

This memorial will crown the height of land between the Rocky Mountains and the Atlantic Seaboard, where coming generations may view it for all time.

I haven't liked the idea of establishing a new department.

As the conference knows, I have been rather more interested in the consolidation of departments already established than of establishing any new ones.

I have done it regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary.

I don't think the death of General Wood will make any difference about the administration of the insular affairs.

I don't know of any new developments in China that would change the views that I expressed in an address I made in New York on, I think, the 27th of April relative to our policy there.

It is too early to tell just what will be the effect of the conference we held.

I do not expect that the failure to reach an agreement at Geneva will have any serious effect upon the peace of the world.

Quite naturally I thought I would like to confide it to the newspapermen first.

I do not know just how many Americans we have in China.

I told him I would take it under consideration and expressed the hope that I might be able to attend.

Well, it is close to that.

Now, whether those proposals may be modified as the result of conference and discussion, I don't know.

There have been great accomplishments in the finances of the National Government, a large reduction in the national debt, considerable reductions in taxes.

I doubt if I can continue horseback riding after I get back to the capital, and I don't know what I shall do about taking the horse that was presented to me back with me.

The proposals that have been presented, as I understand them, call for the building of a larger navy than we should wish to agree to.