As a nation we have had our full share of great men, but the two men of pre-eminent greatness who, as the centuries go on, will surely loom above all others are Washington and Lincoln.

Like Lincoln he sought after the noblest objects, and like Lincoln he sought after them by thoroughly practical methods.

Again Washington said: 'Cherish public credit.'

Our navy is the surest guaranty of peace and the cheapest insurance against war.

Among Washington's maxims which he bequeathed to his country men were the two following: 'Observe good faith and justice toward all nations,' and 'To be prepared for war is the most effective means to promote peace.'

Again Washington said: 'Give to manhood the example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.'

Finally, it is peculiarly appropriate, when I have come to this city as the guest of the University of Pennsylvania, to quote another of Washington's maxims: 'Promote, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general…

To the Senate and House of Representatives:I transmit herewith for the information of the Congress a report on the progress of the beet-sugar industry in the United States in 1904.

Your attention is respectfully invited to the accompanying letter of the Secretary of Agriculture, recommending that 10,000 copies of the report be printed for the use of the Department of Agriculture in addition to such number as may be…

I should think ill of any man here who did not wish to leave his children a little better and not a little worse off materially than he was.

I have come, as I said, not to make a set speech, but to thank you for your greeting and to assure you that not one meeting which I have attended since I have been President has given me greater pleasure to attend than this dinner here…

The great prizes come more or less by accident.

Americanism is not a matter of birthplace, of ancestry, of creed, of occupation; Americanism is a matter of the spirit that is within man's soul.

We need good laws, we need honest administration of the laws, and we cannot afford to be contented with less.

To speak discourteously, insultingly, does not do them any harm; it may irritate them, and therefore, it may do us some harm.

In addition to the foregoing recommendation I urge that Congress emphasize the value set by our people upon the achievements of the naval commanders in our war of independence by providing for the erection of appropriate monuments to the…

But he felt only love, a love as deep as the tenderness of his great and sad heart, for all his country men alike in the North and in the South, and he longed above every thing for the day when they should once more be knit together in the…

It is eminently fitting that these services should now be commemorated in suitable manner.