No American worthy of the name would fail to be stirred with patriotism as he comes into your magnificent State, into this magnificent city.
I will take advice about appointing men, but if I find them crooked I do not take any advice at all about removing them.
The man who is decent in his home relations, who is kind to those dependent upon him, who is a good husband, father, and son; is a good citi...
The same spirit that made them valiant in battle made them, when they came home from battle, take up the strings of their lives where they h...
The last time I came through your great and beautiful State I was with my regiment on the way to the Spanish War.
I am for a canal.
Think how fortunate we are as a people that, whereas, most great wars leave memories of rancor and bitterness, we now have the right of Amer...
Children of to-day are going to decide what our country shall be in the immediate future, and accordingly as they are brought up well or ill...
We cannot, any of us, afford to differ about the question of honesty in public life, decency and cleanliness in private life.
In that regiment I had more men whose fathers had worn the gray than I had whose fathers had worn the blue; but they united in the generous ...
What we need is not genius, not brilliancy, but the ordinary commonplace virtues that every man or woman can have, if only he or she will.
Uncle Sam has started to dig that canal, and it will be dug, and soon.
I cannot sufficiently express my appreciation of the magnificent greeting that you have given me to-day.
Now, I hold that as a matter of public policy, whatever helps a part of our country helps the whole.
What we need in the average man in his relation to the State is that he shall have the three qualities—courage, honesty, and common sense.
We are knit together by the bond of our common interests in the future.
If you go to a man and he says that if the people want it he will do something that is wrong in their interests, you can make up your minds ...
It is a matter of special pride to us that our nation, the American nation, should have undertaken the performance of this world duty.
