Now, the grand problem that we should set before us is to keep prosperity, but above all never, under any circumstances, to lend ourselves to the leadership of any who appeal to the baser passions of mankind.

We need, in order successfully to face the difficult and complex problems of our industrial civilization, all the courage and loyalty, and all the faith, and clearsighted sanity and purpose which there is at our command.

If any man tells you that he can advance a specific by which all the evils of the body politic will be made to disappear, distrust him, for if he is honest he knows not what he says.

Prosperity by itself never made any man happy.

Evils have come through our very prosperity, but in warring against the evil let us be exceeding careful not to war against the prosperity.

In this life as a rule the job that is easy to do is not very well worth while doing.

Do your work and do it up to the handle and then play when you have got time to play, and if you are worth anything enjoy that, too.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Our officers and men on the march and in battle showed themselves not unworthy of you, the men of the great war.

Let's devote our best thought and best energies to finding some method of getting rid of any and all evils in the body politic.

There was no money reward for what you did.

We are all loyal Americans now—North, South, East and West—all alike jealous of the nation's honor and welfare.

Let us above all things beware in using the knife not to handle it so that it will be dangerous to the community even more than to the evil attacked.

Face the problem; realize its gravity, and then approach it in a spirit that will keep it ever in mind that if we are to succeed at all, it must be by each doing to the best of his capacity his own business, and yet by each remembering…

No nation can face greatness without having to face trial.

The only way to obtain good government is for each man to do his own share.

I feel that the art of successful government in our country is the art of applying practically the every day principles of decency, morality and common sense.

The best possible safeguard for this nation is an adequate and highly efficient navy.