If you did not do your work well this Republic would not endure beyond the span of the generation.

The chance to do good work is the greatest chance that can come to any man or any woman in our generation or in any other generation.

Even when we hear so much criticism of certain aspects of our public life and of certain of our public servants, criticism which I regret to state is in many cases deserved.

I do not in the least underestimate the need of having material prosperity as the basis of our civilization.

It is absolutely necessary to earn a certain amount of money.

You teachers make the whole world your debtor.

To furnish in your lives such a realized high ideal is to do a great service to the country.

He entered the public service as the trusted and intimate companion of Abraham Lincoln, and for well-nigh forty-five years he served his country with loyal devotion and high ability in many positions of honor and trust

His death, a crushing sorrow to his friends, is to the people of this country a national bereavement; and it is in addition a serious loss to all mankind

and finally he crowned his life work by serving as Secretary of State with such farsighted reading of the future and such loyalty to lofty ideals as to confer lasting benefits not only upon our own country but upon all the nations of the…

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do declare and proclaim that the first of the conditions specified in section 13 of the act of March 3, 1891, is now fulfilled in respect to the subjects of…

Done at the request of Secretary Hay, who says she is now the best clerk of her class that he has.

We have a right to demand that they set an example to their less fortunate brethren by paying scrupulous heed not only to the letter, but to the spirit of the laws.

I don't know whether the undergraduates realize what a beautiful building, what a beautiful hall, what beautiful surroundings, these are.

And now I am going to ask you to join with me in three times three for Col. Higginson.

A man coming here from the outside can, perhaps, see more clearly than those who are all the time enjoying the surroundings and can realize how great a privilege it is which the generosity of Col. Higginson has allowed to us of Harvard to…

Brutality in playing a game should awaken the heartiest and most plainly shown contempt for the player guilty of it.

The very rich man who conducts his business as if he believed that he were a law unto himself thereby immensely increases the difficulty of the task of upholding order.