What we need most in this Republic is not special genius, not unusual brilliancy, but the honest and upright adherence on the part of the mass of the citizens and of their representatives to the fundamental laws of private and public…

Napoleon said that in war the moral was to the material as ten to one; and it is just exactly as true in civil and social life.

It is an admirable thing to have wealth if we use it aright and understand its relative value compared to the things of the spirit.

I am glad to have the chance of greeting you to-night.

Every earnest and zealous believer, every man or woman who is a doer of the word and not a hearer only, is a lifelong missionary in his or her field of labor—a missionary by precept, and, by what counts a thousand fold more than precept…

We have a right to expect that you will show your faith by your works; that the people who have the inestimable advantages of the church-life and the home-life should be made to remember that as much has been given them, much will be…

It is well for us that when there comes a great work in peace or in war we have the army as an instrument for it.

We have a right to expect that you will show your faith by your works.

We intend to see that it has all the aid we can give it, and I trust and believe that our people will, through their national legislature, see to it very shortly that Cuba has the advantage of entering into peculiarly close relations with…

We must have thrift, business energy, business enterprise and all that spring from them, as the foundation upon which we are to build the great national superstructure.

The century that has closed has seen the conquest of this continent by our people.

Honor, thrice honor to those who for three generations, during the period of this people's great expansion, have seen that the force of the living truth expanded as the nation expanded!

It is a pleasure on behalf of the people of the United States to greet you and bid you welcome on this hundredth anniversary.

The loyalty that counts is the loyalty which shows itself in deeds rather than in words.

The man who builds up is greater than he who tears down.

Doing the duty well is what counts.

Without the work that you did the work of the men who fought the Revolution to a successful close would have meant nothing.

It is indeed appropriate that the Methodists of America...should found this great university in the city of Washington.