I am very glad to be traveling through Massachusetts, to see your beautiful country, your landscape and rivers, your factories, and, above a...
I want you to have high ideals, but practical ideals.
I demand that the nation do its duty, accept responsibility that must go with greatness.
If you have to choose between being noxious and merely harmless, of course, choose to be harmless.
I do not believe that such supervision can come effectively through the State, nor that it can effectively come through the municipality.
If he does not secure such legal evidence, no amount of popular feeling is to be allowed to be substituted for the legal evidence.
I admire a great many of Massachusetts' products, but I think the product of the children is the best.
I ask that the nation dare to be great, and that in daring to be great it show how to do justice to the weak no less than to exact justice f...
All I asked on behalf of the people of the United States was that Santo Domingo should be good and happy.
That sort of kindness is a curse for those for whom it is nominally exercised.
The same qualities that count in the army and the navy are what we need and wish to make the best civilization in the world.
I have always regretted that it was not within my power to come here when they dedicated the monument to his memory, but I am deeply thankfu...
And they look like mighty nice children, too.
Have high ideals but try to realize them in practical shape.
These same children are the men and women who, 15 or 20 years hence, will be shaping the destiny of this nation, and they will shape it well...
Every man that graduates here has received something, and something big, for which he has made no return, and for which he can never make an...
We must keep our minds upon the essentials and not upon the non-essentials.
Ruskin said that what counted was the work that was done not for the fees, but for the work's sake.
