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…

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 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.

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.

We must grow by evolution, not by revolution.

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

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

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

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

The evil growing out of these laws is of such magnitude and the necessity for action is so urgent that I recommend to Congress the immediate consideration of the subject.

The institution of marriage is, of course, at the very foundation of our social organization.

No finally satisfactory result can be expected from merely State action.

I thank you for having given me the chance to speak to you this morning, to say a word of greeting to you and to wish you Godspeed with all my heart.

Let me congratulate you and let me congratulate all of us that we live in a land and at a time when we accept it as natural that this should be an inter-denominational service of thanksgiving.

One of the constant problems of life is to try to cultivate breadth without shallowness, just as we want to cultivate depth without narrowness.