I ask that the nation dare to be great, and that in daring to be great it show how to do justice to the weak no less than to exact justice from the strong.

It is a great pleasure to come here and stop for a few minutes at the place where my predecessor, President McKinley, was so fond of staying.

Keep on building and maintaining at the highest point of efficiency the United States navy, or quit trying to be a big nation.

Have high ideals but try to realize them in practical shape.

I do not believe that such supervision can come effectively through the State, nor that it can effectively come through the municipality.

I am sure there is not a father or mother that will not agree with me that of all the bodies of men and women in this country, that one to which we owe the most because of their profession is the body of school teachers.

These same children are the men and women who, 15 or 20 years hence, will be shaping the destiny of this nation, and they will shape it well or ill, accordingly as they are now brought up.

He said that at Adams I would be gratified by seeing any number of children.

I am very glad to be traveling through Massachusetts, to see your beautiful country, your landscape and rivers, your factories, and, above all, your men and women.

That sort of kindness is a curse for those for whom it is nominally exercised.

I admire a great many of Massachusetts' products, but I think the product of the children is the best.

I have always regretted that it was not within my power to come here when they dedicated the monument to his memory, but I am deeply thankful to Mr. Plunkett for the interest he has shown in being the first mover in the erection of a…

It can only come if the officers entrusted with the administration of the law remember that it is exactly as much their duty to protect the railroad from the public as to protect the public from the railroad.

I want you to have high ideals, but practical ideals.

All I asked on behalf of the people of the United States was that Santo Domingo should be good and happy.

Put justice first; it will generally lead to peace; but follow it wherever it leads.

We are to be held to an exceptional accountability for the use we make of those advantages.

The greatest problem before our people, as before every modern people, is the problem of getting justice as between man and man.