The rich man owes his very existence, his prosperity to the fact that the law throws its mantle around him.

It is a great pleasure to have the chance of coming before you and saying a word of greeting to you today.

Ours is an age of specialization and the man who is to do industrial work will find himself immeasurably better prepared for it if he can have the proper kind of industrial training.

But it will not fail—it will succeed because we still have in us the spirit of the men of '61.

All men are not merely wicked, but foolish, if they ask privileges to violate the law.

I feel that as an American citizen it is proper for me to express to you and to those like you, the obligations that good Americans feel for what you and they have done in this university and in other educational institutions throughout…

I am especially pleased that I am to take part in the dedication of an institution of learning where so much of the teaching is to be with direct view to an industrial betterment of the country.

This is not and never shall be a government of a mob.

The supreme safety of our country is to be found in the fearless and honest administration of the law of the land.

I believe in children and I like your stock; I am glad it is being kept up.

I ask this audience—I ask the State of Illinois—I ask the entire Union to see to it, that there is no fault in the upbuilding and the maintaining of the American navy.

Don't foul; don't flinch; and hit the line hard.

The word was mighty.

We can not too highly honor him.

If we did not go through the trials and troubles that they did, we at least did the best we could.

All that the law can do is to give a fair show to each man to develop the best there is in him, guarding him against injustice from others, and seeing that he works no injustice in return.

A man who fails to show such regard for his fellow stamps himself as being unfit to do his duty in American life.

Of course if the law does not do that, it fails in its duty.