The first requisite of liberty, as we and our forefathers have known it, is the willingness to abide by the law.
Vermont has always played far more than her part to which she was by population entitled in the affairs of the country.
The law must get at the big man who goes wrong just as it gets at the small man who goes wrong.
I thank you.
I thank you most warmly for the greeting you have extended to me this evening.
I pity no man because he has got to work.
For that I do not pity them. I admire them.
Each man of you who looks back on his life will feel proud to hand to his children, not the memory of the days of ease, ...
The good citizenship has to come from the people themselves.
You have hay and stock farms outside, and you, therefore, have in this community the farmer and the towns man, the emplo...
It has been to me a very great pleasure to visit your State, and above all, to meet your people.
You can frame laws and have a good constitution, and after all has been done that you can do in that way you have accomp...
There is no royal road to good government any more than there is a royal road to learning.
You can give a child every advantage, give him books and the teachers, but he has got to learn, he has got to do that hi...
You have manufactories in your town—shoes, linen, underwear.
We need, in order successfully to face the difficult and complex problems of our industrial civilization, all the courag...
Let's try to get rid of them, but let's show common sense in the effort.
Do your work and do it up to the handle and then play when you have got time to play, and if you are worth anything enjo...
