There must be no hurry, but there must also be no halt; and those who are anxious that there should be no sudden and violent changes must remember that precisely these sudden and violent changes will be rendered likely if we refuse to make…

I earnestly hope that our foreign policy shall be continued absolutely without regard to change of administration, to change of party.

The right of incorporation ought to be suspended at once until Congress can devise proper legislation for guarding its exercise.

Of all foolish crimes, of all baseless figments of a disturbed imagination, the cry of militarism in this country is the most foolish and the most baseless.

He will not and cannot do this if our laws are so defective that in the sharp competition of the business world the conscientious man is put at a disadvantage by his less scrupulous fellows.

I am not surprised that you should show those traits, for I should be heartily ashamed of you if you did not.

I should be ashamed to see this nation play the part of a weakling.

On the other hand, we have the right to expect from the representatives of the people a peculiar care for your interests.

Our faith in the future of the republic is firm, because we believe that on the whole and in the long run our people think clearly and act rightly.

Every friend of peace will join heartily in seeing that those arbitration treaties do become part of the supreme law of the land.

There is a widespread conviction that the divorce laws are dangerously lax and indifferently administered in some of the States, resulting in a diminishing regard for the sanctity of the marriage relation.

We are not trying to strike down the rich man; on the contrary, we will not tolerate any attack upon his rights.

I fail to see how any good American can be other than a better American when he comes here to Annapolis.

The case calls for the most radical remedy.

It is idle to talk of our faith in the Monroe Doctrine if we are not able to make that faith evident.

I deem the matter of sufficient general importance to recommend that the Director of the Census be authorized by appropriate legislation to collect and publish statistics pertaining to that subject covering the period from 1886 to the…

On the one hand we have the right to expect a peculiar measure of self-sacrificing service from you.

We must grow by evolution, not by revolution.