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Insistence upon the impossible means delay in achieving the possible.

Ours is not the creed of the weakling and the coward; ours is the gospel of hope and of triumphant endeavor.

It is hereby ordered that the southeast quarter of section 31, township 27 north, range 10 east, Mount Diablo meridian, California, be, and the same is hereby, reserved and set apart for Indian school purposes, the same to form a part of…

It is a poor type of school nowadays that has not a good playground attached.

We have a right to be proud of the memories of the last six years.

Most certainly I do not claim all the good that has befallen us during the past six years as due solely to any human policy.

The American flag stands for orderly liberty, and it stands for it abroad as it stands for it at home.

General Wright stands for duty well done in the Philippines.

If any of us raise ourselves a little, then by just so much the nation, as a whole, is raised.

The task of our soldiers was to restore and maintain order in the islands.

Important though it is that we should have peace abroad, it is even more important that we should have peace at home.

I was delighted to have a chance to visit the great battle-fields here;

An honest currency is the strongest symbol and expression of honest business life.

A financial system of assured honesty is the first essential.

We have our faces set toward the future. Our sympathy is not with men who fear for success.

It should be our object in every way to encourage the National Guards of the States and to build them up to the highest point of efficiency.

I wish to lay particular stress on the need of preparedness.