There rests upon each of you a tremendous burden of responsibility, and therefore to you belongs the proud privilege of bearing that load of responsibility well.

It is right and proper that the man in a high position should receive a marked degree of credit if he performs his difficult, delicate, and responsible task well.

This day is hallowed and sacred in our history.

He must be able to handle himself and to handle the formidable and delicate mechanism intrusted to his care.

The first duty of a leader, civil or military, is to lead; and he must lead well.

Such a record should make every true American proud of the Army and the Navy.

Nothing is cheaper than to say that the people are all right but that the politicians are all wrong.

We can not too highly honor the memory of the leaders in the Civil War.

Leadership is necessary in order that we may get really good results out of a high average of individual character.

Every man who has served well and faithfully, afloat or ashore, in the service of the United States, has shown that he possesses certain qualities which entitle him in a peculiar degree to the respect of all his fellow-citizens.

Each applicant who shows himself duly qualified will be registered and given a nontransferable certificate to that effect, which will entitle him to go upon and examine the lands to be opened hereunder.

By virtue of the power vested in me by the said act of Congress, do hereby declare and make known that all of the unallotted lands in said reservation... will, on and after the sixteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and six, in the manner…

The hands of the Government have been greatly strengthened in securing an effective remedy by the recent decision of the Supreme Court.

It is highly desirable that an element of competition should be introduced by the passage of some such law as that which has already passed the House, putting alcohol used in the arts and manufactures upon the free list.

The time has come when no oil or coal lands held by the Government, either upon the public domain proper or in territory owned by the Indian tribes, should be alienated.

This three-quarters of a million represents the profit that the Standard Oil Company obtains at the expense of the railroads; but of course the ultimate result is that it obtains a much larger profit at the expense of the public.

The facts set forth in this report are for the most part not disputed.

The Government should have power by its agents to examine into the conduct of the railways.