Shame upon the man who, when the opportunity to help is given, fails to stretch out the hand.

The only way to obtain good government is for each man to do his own share.

I feel that the art of successful government in our country is the art of applying practically the every day principles of decency, morality and common sense.

You preserved for us a united country and showed the world that it was ever to be united.

You believe practically that each man must work out his fate for himself.

We do not need too many laws, too much legislation.

No nation can face greatness without having to face trial.

An equal meed of praise belongs to those men who prepared in advance.

The worth of a civilization is the worth of the man at its centre.

While modes of fighting were different in the time of Lincoln from that of Washington, and still more different today, the spirit that wins is just the same.

The only way by which, in the long run, any man can be helped is by teaching him to help himself.

The best possible safeguard for this nation is an adequate and highly efficient navy.

Almost all of our great Presidents have been brought up in the country.

Self-help and individual initiative remain to a peculiar degree typical of life in the country, life on a farm, in the lumbering camp, on a ranch.

We ought to say it as a reminder to us that we are not to be excused if in the future we do any less well than has been done in the past.

It is our duty to lift him up; but it is also our duty to remember that there is no earthly use in trying to carry him.

And the best possible safeguard for this nation is an adequate and highly efficient navy.

You men who fought in that war did the greatest deed which men have ever done.