My pet theory has been that the very best thing that can happen to Harvard is to have the West win it

Hard words won't hurt us if we disregard them.

We cannot help playing a great part.

I believe thoroughly in each kind of organization.

I remodeled it anyhow, purely in the exercise of my executive functions.

Perhaps the father of a number of children can be excused for saying that of all the classes of our country I think the school teacher deserves a little the best of all of us.

I hail every Harvard club west of the Alleghany, even more than I do those east of there

I have accepted your kind and generous invitation to come before you this evening.

I shall strive to appoint and retain men who will do exactly the same justice to the railroad as they will exact from the railroad.

I doubt if any member of the Hamilton Club has longer and pleasanter associations with it than I have.

There is no use of expecting much of him if he cannot pull his own weight.

The courts would retain, no matter what the legislature did, the power to interfere and upset any action that was confiscatory in its nature.

This country of ours is pre-eminently a business country.

It is going to be dug honestly and as cheaply as is compatible with efficiency, but with efficiency first.

This government is not, and never shall be, the government of a plutocracy.

The nation must act in a spirit which gives full recognition to the national demands;

I feel that this club not only commemorates the name and the great service of Alexander Hamilton.

Our people have risen and will rise because they have taken care of both sides of the development of the national character.