If he does not have it, no matter what other qualities he may have, he will find himself at the mercy of those who, without possessing his desire to do right, know only too well how to make the wrong effective.

In the unending strife for civic betterment, small is the use of these people who mean well, but who mean well feebly.

If a man is strong in mind and body and misuses his strength then he becomes simply a foe to the body politic, to be hunted down by all decent men.

If we think we can render it without taking the pains, if we think we can render it by feeling how nice it would be to render it—why, the value of that service will be but little.

The timid good man counts but little in the rough business of trying to do well the world's work.

When it comes to rendering service, that which counts chiefly with a college graduate, as with any other American citizen, is not intellect so much as what stands above mere power of body, or mere power of mind, but must in a sense include…

To you much has been given, and woe and shame to you if we cannot rightfully expect much from you in return.

One piece of first-rate work is worth a thousand pieces of second-rate work.

The only first-rate work is the work done by the man who does it for the sake of doing it well, who counts the deed itself as his reward.

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Dismal River Forest Reserve.

It appears that the public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation.

The public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation.

Now, therefore, I, William McKinley, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested, do hereby declare and make known that the Executive Orders dated December 27, 1875, and December 29, 1891, are so far modified as to…

these tracts having been found better adapted to agricultural than forest purposes

it is hereby ordered that the tracts hereinafter described and situated in township fifty-eight (58) north, range eighty-nine (89) west, within the limits of the Big Horn Forest reserve, in the State of Wyoming, be restored to the public…

It is hereby ordered that upon Tuesday the ninth (9th) instant...shall be excused from duty at one o'clock P.M. for the remainder of that day to enable them to participate in the exercises of the unveiling of the statue erected to the…

The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enlist in the Insular Forte United States Navy, which is hereby established, not to exceed five hundred (500) Filipinos in the following ratings at the rates of pay indicated.

That the President is hereby authorized at any time to modify any executive order that has been or may hereafter be made establishing any forest reserve, and by such modification may reduce the area or change the boundary lines of such…