"The problems with which we have to deal in our modern industrial and social life are manifold."
"Our performance in the past, our proved governmental efficiency, is a guarantee as to our promises for the future."
"We have already shown in actual fact that our policy is to do fair and equal justice to all men."
"Our steady growth in power has gone hand in hand with a strengthening disposition to use this power with strict regard for the rights of others and for the cause of international justice and good will..."
"Clarence Reeder may be appointed as private secretary to the Director of the Geological Survey, without examination under the civil-service rules."
"An exception to the requirements of the civil-service rules is hereby made to permit the appointment, without examination, of Dr. William L. Ralph as curator of the section of birds' eggs in the Natio..."
"An exception to the requirements of the civil-service rules is hereby made to permit the appointment of Mr. Samuel D. Amen to the position of internal-revenue agent."
"The lands hereby excluded from the reserve and restored to the public domain shall lie open to settlement from the date hereof."
"A person who has been reinstated in the classified service in a grade lower than that from which he had been separated, may be promoted to his former grade without examination."
"The Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe all needful rules and regulations necessary to carry into full effect the opening herein provided for."
"All of the conditions required by law to be performed prior to the opening of said tracts of land to settlement and entry have been, as I hereby declare, duly performed."
"By virtue of the power vested in me by law, do hereby declare and make known that all of the lands so as aforesaid ceded by the Sisseton, Wahpeton, and Cut-Head bands of the Sioux tribe of Indians."
"In the judgment of the President, no more of the land herein ceded can be disposed of at said price, he may by proclamation, to be repeated in his discretion, sell from time to time the remaining land..."
"Freedom is not a gift which can be enjoyed save by those who show themselves worthy of it."
"Exactly as in time of war courage is the cardinal virtue of the soldier, so in time of peace, honesty, using the word in its deepest and broadest significance, is the essential basic virtue, without w..."
"He is but a poor American who, looking at this field, does not feel within himself a deeper reverence for the nation's past and a higher purpose to make the nation's future rise level to her past."
"Mr. I.B. Conklin may be appointed as special laborer (clerk) at $3.28 per diem in the office of the paymaster, navy-yard, Washington, D.C., without examination under the civil-service rules."
"Miss Katherine C. Masterson may be reinstated in the Government Printing Office without regard to the year limitation of Civil-Service Rule IX, relating to reinstatements."
