We are accountable at the bar of history and must plead in utter frankness what purpose it is we seek to serve.
They impudently denied us the use of the high seas and repeatedly executed their threat that they would send to their de...
We meet to celebrate Flag Day because this flag which we honour and under which we serve is the emblem of our unity, our...
This flag under which we serve would have been dishonoured had we withheld our hand.
They sought by violence to destroy our industries and arrest our commerce.
And yet, though silent, it speaks to us.
What great nation in such circumstances would not have taken up arms?
It is plain enough how we were forced into the war.
They are themselves in the grip of the same sinister power that has now at last stretched its ugly talons out and drawn ...
They did not originate or desire this hideous war or wish that we should be drawn into it; and we are vaguely conscious ...
It is hereby ordered that through the Secretary of the Navy there be taken over to the United States the immediate posse...
In each case in which the War Department requests authority under this order it shall furnish to the Commission a list g...
The Civil Service Commission may, in its discretion, when it believes such action to be in the interest of the service, ...
For, my friends, the real fruition of life is to do the thing we have said we wished to do.
We did not set this government up that we might have a selfish and separate liberty, for we are now ready to come to you...
When you reflect upon it, these men who died to preserve the Union died to preserve the instrument which we are now usin...
I do not pity them. I envy them, rather, because theirs is the great work for liberty accomplished, and we are in the mi...
There are times when words seem empty and only action seems great. Such a time has come, and in the providence of God, A...
