Be ready and fit for anything that you have to do. And keep ready and fit.
Your education has just begun.
You are not serving a government, gentlemen; you are serving a people.
America will not bring glory to herself, but disgrace, by following the beaten paths of history.
I am not afraid of the verdict.
Do not get the professional point of view.
The idea of America is to serve humanity.
I want you to take these great engines of force out onto the seas like adventurers enlisted for the elevation of the spi...
It is our duty and our privilege to be like the country we represent and, speaking no word of malice, no word of critici...
To declare this chapter in the history of the United States closed and ended, and I bid you turn with me with your faces...
Am I mistaken, ladies and gentlemen, in supposing that nothing of this sort could have occurred in anything but a democr...
Our solemn duty is to see that each one of us is in his own consciousness and in his own conduct a replica of this great...
I am not so much happy as proud to participate in this capacity on such an occasion: proud that I should represent such ...
We admire physical courage, but we admire above all things else moral courage.
We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which th...
We are dedicated to freedom, and that freedom means the freedom of the human spirit.
There is no immortality that is safer than theirs.
We owe them the spiritual reëstablishment of the Union as well; for they not only reunited States, they reunited the spi...