"You can pardon most anything in a man who will tell the truth, because you know where that man is; you know what he means."
"If any one lies, if he has the habit of untruthfulness, you cannot deal with him, because there is nothing to depend on."
"Every college should strive to bring to development among the students the capacity to do good original work."
"Ours is a government of equal rights under the law, guaranteeing those rights to each man so long as he in his turn refrains from wronging his brother."
"It is, of course, the merest truism to say that important though it is to develop factories, railroads, farms, commerce, the thing that counts is the development of citizenship."
"I believe in you. I believe in your future. I believe in our future."
"The first thing that the individual man has to do is to pull his own weight, to earn his own way, not to be a drag on the community."
"Each one of us must remember that any one may and will at times slip."
"If he lies down you cannot carry him."
"Any man who claims that there can be liberty in spite of and against the law is claiming that anarchy is liberty."
"You have done this great work of building up a new community."
"We are living right in the middle of them now, only we are living under pleasanter auspices."
"Character has two sides."
"I cannot say how I have appreciated being here in your beautiful State and your beautiful city."
"To think of the well-nigh incredible fact that all of this that I have been looking at—the city, the development of the country—that it has all occurred within twenty years."
"I always envy you men of the Grand Army because you do not have to preach; you practiced."
"We can solve aright all the difficult problems that come up because of and through our modern civilization."
"I believe in doing all we can to avoid a quarrel, to avoid trouble."
