"I can never speak in praise of war, ladies and gentlemen; you would not desire me to do so."
"We come not for their sakes but for our own, in order that we may drink at the same springs of inspiration from which they themselves selves drank."
"It has been a privilege, ladies and gentlemen, to come and say these simple words, which I am sure are merely putting your thought into language."
"The committee is authorized to spend such sums as may be available for printing, postage, correspondence, employment of clerks, and other necessary expenses connected with formally and officially open..."
"Honorable Richard L. Metcalfe shall be Vice-Chairman."
"Colonel George W. Goethals, now Governor of the Panama Canal, shall be Chairman of this committee."
"No man who thinks first of himself and afterwards of his country can call himself an American."
"You need alliances when you are not strong, and you are weak only when you are not true to yourself."
"I never went into battle; I never was under fire; but I fancy that there are some things just as hard to do as to go under fire."
"We are expected to put the utmost energy of every power that we have into the service of our fellow-men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, bu..."
"The time during which a consul may be unavoidably detained at his post while waiting for a conveyance to the United States, after delivering up the office, may be included in his home transit so far a..."
"There can in what we do be no thought of aggression or of selfish aggrandizement."
"We seek to maintain the dignity and authority of the United States only because we wish always to keep our great influence unimpaired for the uses of liberty, both in the United States and wherever el..."
"I therefore come to ask your approval that I should use the armed forces of the United States in such ways and to such an extent as may be necessary to obtain from General Huerta and his adherents the..."
"I have come to ask you for the repeal of that provision of the Panama Canal Act of August 24, 1912, which exempts vessels engaged in the coastwise trade of the United States from payment of tolls."
"No communication I have addressed to the Congress carried with it graver or more far-reaching implications as to the interest of the country."
"We are too big, too powerful, too self-respecting a nation to interpret with a too strained or refined reading the words of our own promises."
"as the conditions on which the Proclamation of March 14, 1912, was based have essentially changed, and as it is desirable to place the United States with reference to the exportation of arms or muniti..."
