While prosperity is indispensable as the basis, as the foundation, it will not amount to anything if you do not build on that foundation.
I believe thoroughly in each kind of organization.
It is a great pleasure to greet you to-day and be once again in this fertile and beautiful State of Illinois.
You raise a great many good crops in Illinois, but the best crop is the Illinois citizen.
The nation must act in a spirit which gives full recognition to the national demands;
Perhaps the father of a number of children can be excused for saying that of all the classes of our country I think the school teacher deser...
I doubt if any member of the Hamilton Club has longer and pleasanter associations with it than I have.
Hard words won't hurt us if we disregard them.
This country of ours is pre-eminently a business country.
My pet theory has been that the very best thing that can happen to Harvard is to have the West win it
This government is not and never shall be the government of a mob.
I believe in a big navy;
It is to them that we owe the fact that we have a country at all.
I feel that this club not only commemorates the name and the great service of Alexander Hamilton.
We cannot abandon our position on the Monroe Doctrine;
Our people have risen and will rise because they have taken care of both sides of the development of the national character.
I am particularly pleased to greet the Harvard Club of Chicago again under as pleasant circumstances as I have ever had the pleasure of gree...
Our country is governed and under existing circumstances can only be governed, under the party system.
