We meet to celebrate Flag Day because this flag which we honour and under which we serve is the emblem of our unity, our...
They impudently denied us the use of the high seas and repeatedly executed their threat that they would send to their de...
We are accountable at the bar of history and must plead in utter frankness what purpose it is we seek to serve.
They are themselves in the grip of the same sinister power that has now at last stretched its ugly talons out and drawn ...
They sought by violence to destroy our industries and arrest our commerce.
And yet, though silent, it speaks to us.
Woe be to the man or group of men that seeks to stand in our way in this day of high resolution when every principle we ...
We are ready to plead at the bar of history, and our flag shall wear a new lustre.
Once more we shall make good with our lives and fortunes the great faith to which we were born, and a new glory shall sh...
It is hereby ordered that through the Secretary of the Navy there be taken over to the United States the immediate posse...
The Civil Service Commission may, in its discretion, when it believes such action to be in the interest of the service, ...
In each case in which the War Department requests authority under this order it shall furnish to the Commission a list g...
We did not set this government up that we might have a selfish and separate liberty, for we are now ready to come to you...
In this thing America attains her full dignity and the full fruition of her great purpose.
There are times when words seem empty and only action seems great. Such a time has come, and in the providence of God, A...
I do not pity them. I envy them, rather, because theirs is the great work for liberty accomplished, and we are in the mi...
For, my friends, the real fruition of life is to do the thing we have said we wished to do.
When you reflect upon it, these men who died to preserve the Union died to preserve the instrument which we are now usin...