Again Washington said: 'Cherish public credit.'
As a nation we have had our full share of great men, but the two men of pre-eminent greatness who, as the centuries go on, will surely loom ...
Like Lincoln he sought after the noblest objects, and like Lincoln he sought after them by thoroughly practical methods.
Among Washington's maxims which he bequeathed to his country men were the two following: 'Observe good faith and justice toward all nations,...
To the Senate and House of Representatives:I transmit herewith for the information of the Congress a report on the progress of the beet-suga...
Your attention is respectfully invited to the accompanying letter of the Secretary of Agriculture, recommending that 10,000 copies of the re...
We need good laws, we need honest administration of the laws, and we cannot afford to be contented with less.
I have come, as I said, not to make a set speech, but to thank you for your greeting and to assure you that not one meeting which I have att...
The great prizes come more or less by accident.
Americanism is not a matter of birthplace, of ancestry, of creed, of occupation; Americanism is a matter of the spirit that is within man's ...
I should think ill of any man here who did not wish to leave his children a little better and not a little worse off materially than he was.
May not all having a common interest reunite in a common effort to serve our common country?
Fundamentally, it ought to be based on just about the principle that ought to govern each private individual citizen in dealing with his fel...
Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be revenged.
This is the spirit in which mighty Lincoln sought to bind up the nation's wounds when its soul was yet seething with fierce hatreds, with wr...
The strife of the election is but human nature practically applied to the facts of the case.
Yes, and have the 'big stick', too, but do not brandish it.
He warred for the Union; he warred to free the slave; and when he warred he warred in earnest, for it is a sign of weakness to be half-heart...
