Selfishness is poison in the veins of human life.
It is both my duty and pleasure to express the appreciation of your many guests to both the Commission and the people of...
For that cooperation we have held during these 150 years a grateful remembrance.
The hospitality of Virginia has been the highest expression of courtesy in our country now for more than two centuries.
No person here present, no schoolchild of the millions listening in on this occasion, needs reminder of the significance...
We are coming to our national thanksgiving festival, but we cannot fitly give thanks to the Father of us all if we close...
The unparalleled rise of America has not been the result of riches in lands, forests, or mines; it sprung from the ideas...
If we judge it by the standard of battles in which the contrary result would have essentially varied the whole course of...
We thank you not alone for fine courtesy but for the inspiration which comes from Virginia.
No American can review this vast pageant of progress without confidence and faith, without courage, strength, and resolu...
Certainly with the victory at Yorktown, our independence was won.
In hard times we must open our hearts and consider our neighbors and brothers.
It is not too much to say that without Washington the war for independence would not have been won.
No one steps upon the soil of Virginia without inspiration from the part she has played in the winning of our liberties ...
This national shrine stands for more than a glorious battle.
It is given to few men of any age, nation, or calling to become the benefactor of all humanity.
He multiplied light and dissolved darkness; he added to whole wealth of nations.
I mourn his passing as a personal friend over a quarter of a century.
