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But the nation is in a bad way if there is no real home, if the family is not of the right kind; if the man is not a good husband and father, if he is brutal or cowardly or selfish, if the woman has lost her sense of duty, if she is sunk…
No piled-up wealth, no splendor of material growth, no brilliance of artistic development, will permanently avail any people unless its home life is healthy, unless the average man possesses honesty, courage, common sense, and decency.
Yours is the work which is never ended.
The birth pangs make all men the debtors of all women.
No greater work can be done by a philanthropic or religious society than to stretch out the helping hand to the man and the woman who come here to this country to become citizens.
Nobody can help others if he begins by being a burden to others.
Be ye doers of the Word and not hearers only.
It is hereby ordered that the following described lands situated in the State of Utah, be, and the same are hereby, withheld from sale and settlement and set apart for Indian purposes, as an addition to the Navaho Indian Reservation
It offers the method most likely to secure peace and to prevent war in the island.
This treaty was entered into at the earnest request of Santo Domingo itself, and is designed to afford Santo Domingo relief and assistance.
The benefit to the United States will consist chiefly in the tendency under the treaty to secure stability, order, and prosperity in Santo Domingo.
This treaty affords the most practicable means of obtaining payment for the just claims of American citizens.
This treaty offers the only method for preventing the collection of fraudulent debts, whether owed to Americans or to citizens of other nations.
Santo Domingo grievously needs the aid of a powerful and friendly nation.
We know that self-government is difficult.
No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours.
We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither.
We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness.