Leadership is of avail only so far as there is wise and resolute public sentiment behind it.
Their lives teach us to strive after in our own lives, not the thing which is merely pleasant, but the thing which it is...
The home duties are the vital duties.
My faith that it will show no falling off is based upon my faith in the character of our average citizenship.
The life of duty, not the life of mere ease or mere pleasure—that is the kind of life which makes the great man as it ma...
No man is warranted in feeling pride in the deeds of the army and navy of the past if he does not back up the army and t...
Our homage to-day to the memory of Sherman comes from the depths of our being.
Just one word in closing. As I said, we need to display the same qualities now that you needed in 1861.
In addition to decency he had to have the qualities that would make the decency effective.
There has never been another war in which the issues at stake were so large.
The fundamental qualities which make for good citizenship do not change any more than the fundamental qualities which ma...
Lincoln forthwith published that immortal paper, the preliminary declaration of emancipation.
No other battle of the Civil War lasting but one day shows as great a percentage of loss as that which occurred here upo...
No matter how patriotic he was, if he ran away he was no good.
We meet to-day upon one of the great battle-fields of the Civil War.
Our country, now so great and so wonderful, would have been split into little jangling rival nationalities.
A man was not worth any thing then if he was not patriotic and decent.
It is hereby ordered that so much of the land of the Camp McDowell abandoned military reservation as may not have been l...
