The foes from whom we should pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there ...
Our business prosperity has been great.
I now set apart Thursday, the thirtieth day of this November, as a day of thanksgiving for the past and of prayer for th...
The custom has now become national and hallowed by immemorial usage.
In rendering thanks unto the Most High for the manifold blessings of the past year, consecrate themselves to a life of c...
It is eminently fitting that once a year our people should set apart a day for praise and thanksgiving to the Giver of G...
The Cumberland sank with her flags flying and her guns firing while her decks were awash.
It is a privilege for any President to come aboard a squadron of American warships such as these.
What must impress especially any observer is how essential it is that every individual on a ship like this should do his...
The man who died this morning was an excellent seaman, who had done his duty faithfully, and who died in the performance...
Let each of you officers remember, in the event of war, that while a surrender may sometimes be justifiable, yet that su...
Then Joe is dead.
Any man in the whole ship's company who does his full duty can claim as his own the honor and repute of the ship and has...
The discipline, the ready subordination of each man, whether officer or enlisted man, to duty, the care taken of the men...
The result as I see it in this ship is a triumph not only of organization and discipline, but of the ready zeal with whi...
At any time some emergency may arise in which the safety of the entire ship will depend upon the vigilance, intelligence...
All I had to do was to be able to show them that any measure was for the country's good and I knew they would stand for ...
I thank you not only for the words which accompany it, but for the spirit which lies behind the words.
