If we judge it by the standard of battles in which the contrary result would have essentially varied the whole course of...
For that cooperation we have held during these 150 years a grateful remembrance.
We thank you not alone for fine courtesy but for the inspiration which comes from Virginia.
In hard times we must open our hearts and consider our neighbors and brothers.
It is both my duty and pleasure to express the appreciation of your many guests to both the Commission and the people of...
Our purpose today is to pay homage to a glorious event in our national history.
Certainly with the victory at Yorktown, our independence was won.
No person here present, no schoolchild of the millions listening in on this occasion, needs reminder of the significance...
No American can review this vast pageant of progress without confidence and faith, without courage, strength, and resolu...
This national shrine stands for more than a glorious battle.
It is not too much to say that without Washington the war for independence would not have been won.
The hospitality of Virginia has been the highest expression of courtesy in our country now for more than two centuries.
The unparalleled rise of America has not been the result of riches in lands, forests, or mines; it sprung from the ideas...
Selfishness is poison in the veins of human life.
We are coming to our national thanksgiving festival, but we cannot fitly give thanks to the Father of us all if we close...
I mourn his passing as a personal friend over a quarter of a century.
That distinction came abundantly to Thomas Alva Edison whose death in his 85th year has ended a life of courage and outs...
Every American owes a personal debt to him.
