"In order to facilitate such proper inquiries as Her Majesty's Government may desire to make with a view to the presentation of the case of that Government before arbitrators, and in expectation that a..."
"Every vessel or person offending against this prohibition in the said waters of Bering Sea outside of the ordinary territorial limits of the United States may be seized and detained by the naval or ot..."
"I have neither the strength nor the voice adequate to any extended speech to-day."
"It gives me special pleasure to combine with that tribute, which I have usually been able to pay since this day was instituted, to the dead of all our armies, a special mark of respect to that great s..."
"I have recently returned from an extended tour of the States, and nothing so impressed and so refreshened me as the universal display of this banner of beauty and glory."
"It was as if heaven was approving the human liberty and human equality typified by that flag."
"I thank you for the pleasure of participating in these exercises with you to-day, and give you a comrade's best wishes, and a comrade's good-bye."
"I have never been able to think of the day as one of mourning; I have never quite been able to feel that half-masted flags were appropriate on Decoration Day."
"I have rather felt that the flag should be at the peak, because those whose dying we commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where their valor placed it."
"We honor them in a joyous, thankful, triumphant commemoration of what they did."
"We can not ask less than that in all relations they shall obey the law, and they shall yield to every other man his full rights under the law."
"I appreciate most highly this generous welcome which you extend to me, and shall take part in these exercises of the day with a sense of their fitness and of the great events which they commemorate."
