I believe in preaching, but I believe in practice a good deal more.

You ought not to want to see it anyway; but only now and then comes the chance to do the good work in war.

It is a great thing to have had forefathers who did their work well in the world.

It is not enough, gentlemen, to mean well either in battle or in civil life; you not only had to mean well, you had to do well, and it is the same thing in civil life.

I ask for honesty. I ask for courage.

Here in America we pride ourselves on our liberty under the law—a very different thing from lawlessness.

The first requisite of liberty, as we and our forefathers have known it, is the willingness to abide by the law.

I thank you.

For that I do not pity them. I admire them.

It has been to me a very great pleasure to visit your State, and above all, to meet your people.

You have manufactories in your town—shoes, linen, underwear.

You can frame laws and have a good constitution, and after all has been done that you can do in that way you have accomplished simply the creating of conditions which render it possible to have good citizenship.

The good citizenship has to come from the people themselves.

There is no royal road to good government any more than there is a royal road to learning.

You have hay and stock farms outside, and you, therefore, have in this community the farmer and the towns man, the employer and the wage worker.

You can give a child every advantage, give him books and the teachers, but he has got to learn, he has got to do that himself.

To you alone it was given to face with victorious valor the one crisis in which not merely the nation's welfare but the nation's life was at stake.

Let's try to get rid of them, but let's show common sense in the effort.