"The idea of America is to serve humanity."
"I am not afraid of the verdict."
"You are not serving a government, gentlemen; you are serving a people."
"Your education has just begun."
"Do not get the professional point of view."
"I want you to take these great engines of force out onto the seas like adventurers enlisted for the elevation of the spirit of the human race."
"Be ready and fit for anything that you have to do. And keep ready and fit."
"To declare this chapter in the history of the United States closed and ended, and I bid you turn with me with your faces to the future, quickened by the memories of the past, but with nothing to do wi..."
"I am not so much happy as proud to participate in this capacity on such an occasion: proud that I should represent such a people."
"Am I mistaken, ladies and gentlemen, in supposing that nothing of this sort could have occurred in anything but a democracy?"
"It is our duty and our privilege to be like the country we represent and, speaking no word of malice, no word of criticism even, stand shoulder to shoulder to lift the burdens of mankind in the future..."
"Our solemn duty is to see that each one of us is in his own consciousness and in his own conduct a replica of this great reunited people."
"Those who serve this Nation, whether in peace or in war, should serve it without thought of themselves."
"We are dedicated to freedom, and that freedom means the freedom of the human spirit."
"There is no immortality that is safer than theirs."
"We owe them the spiritual reëstablishment of the Union as well; for they not only reunited States, they reunited the spirits of men."
"We admire physical courage, but we admire above all things else moral courage."
"And just so soon as the tasks of peace are performed in the same spirit of self-sacrifice and devotion, peace societies will not be necessary."
