The people of Vermont work with honesty of purpose, the people of Vermont show by their life actions that they are true ...
It will not be worth while summoning our people to do well in war if they have not done well in peace beforehand.
I despise the man who will not work.
I think that this is a State that favors longevity.
You have got to have— you of the Civil War, you fought with widely different weapons and widely different tactics from t...
I like to see a man who is a good citizen.
Anarchy in any shape or manner—and by anarchy I mean all types of mob violence, the violence of one man or the violence ...
Play is a first rate thing, as long as you know it is play.
Violence of the individual, above all, violence of a mob—that type of violence—is incompatible with free government, wit...
It is not enough, gentlemen, to mean well either in battle or in civil life; you not only had to mean well, you had to d...
It is a great thing to have had forefathers who did their work well in the world.
You ought not to want to see it anyway; but only now and then comes the chance to do the good work in war.
It is the man behind the gun in war, and it is the man behind the plough in peace.
I believe in preaching, but I believe in practice a good deal more.
Both must be put down.
Gentlemen and ladies, it has always been a pleasure to me to come here to your city.
You have shown that you appreciated the fact that to be a good citizen a man has got to handle himself not with a view t...
Here in America we pride ourselves on our liberty under the law—a very different thing from lawlessness.
