
Out of and from each we have gained something for our national character; to each we owe something special for what it has contributed to us as a people.
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Out of and from each we have gained something for our national character; to each we owe something special for what it has contributed to us as a people.

Nothing can add more to our capacity for healthy social enjoyment than, by force of example no less than by precept, to encourage the formation of societies which by their cultivation of music, vocal and instrumental, give great lift to…

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.

The rights and privileges reserved to the Indians of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation by Article 1 of the agreement shall be in no way infringed or modified.

let us so far as strength is given us make it evident to those who look on and who are not of us that our faith is not one of words merely; that it finds expression in deeds.

The man who is not a tender and considerate husband, a loving and wise father, is not serving the Lord when he goes to church;

Better lines could surely not be brought into any dedication service of a church; and it is a happy thing that we should have repeated them this morning.

This church is consecrated to the service of the Lord; and we can serve Him by the way we serve our fellow-men.

No more important work can be done by our people; important to the cause of Christianity, important to the cause of true national life and greatness here in our own land,

This church is consecrated to service and duty.

We are not to be excused if we selfishly sit down and enjoy gifts that have been given to us and do not try to share them with our poorer fellows coming from every part of the world.

I have appreciated more than I can say the welcome back home that I have received to-day.

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…

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.

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

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

Different methods must be devised for solving them, but the spirit in which we approach them must be the same as the spirit with which Lincoln and his fellows in council, his followers in war, approached their problems, or else this nation…

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