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 and show the paths of freedom to all…

We admire physical courage, but we admire above all things else moral courage.

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.

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.

We are dedicated to freedom, and that freedom means the freedom of the human spirit.

Those who serve this Nation, whether in peace or in war, should serve it without thought of themselves.

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.

I can never speak in praise of war, ladies and gentlemen; you would not desire me to do so.

Colonel George W. Goethals, now Governor of the Panama Canal, shall be Chairman of this committee.

Honorable Richard L. Metcalfe shall be Vice-Chairman.

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 opening the Panama Canal, as may be…

You need alliances when you are not strong, and you are weak only when you are not true to yourself.

No man who thinks first of himself and afterwards of his country can call himself an American.

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, but ready, if need be, to go to the utter…

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 as not to exceed in all the maximum time…