It is not enough, gentlemen, to mean well either in battle or in civil life; you not only had to mean well, you had to d...
I ask for honesty. I ask for courage.
Here in America we pride ourselves on our liberty under the law—a very different thing from lawlessness.
I pity no man because he has got to work.
Gentlemen and ladies, it has always been a pleasure to me to come here to your city.
The first requisite of liberty, as we and our forefathers have known it, is the willingness to abide by the law.
The law must get at the big man who goes wrong just as it gets at the small man who goes wrong.
I despise the man who will not work.
For that I do not pity them. I admire them.
I think that this is a State that favors longevity.
It is the man behind the gun in war, and it is the man behind the plough in peace.
It is a great thing to have had forefathers who did their work well in the world.
It will not be worth while summoning our people to do well in war if they have not done well in peace beforehand.
The people of Vermont work with honesty of purpose, the people of Vermont show by their life actions that they are true ...
Our safety lies in the sanity, the cool hard-headedness, the self-restraint, mingled with the resolute purpose of our pe...
You ought not to want to see it anyway; but only now and then comes the chance to do the good work in war.
Violence of the individual, above all, violence of a mob—that type of violence—is incompatible with free government, wit...
I thank you most warmly for the greeting you have extended to me this evening.
