Ours is an age of specialization and the man who is to do industrial work will find himself immeasurably better prepared for it if he can have the proper kind of industrial training.

I believe in children and I like your stock; I am glad it is being kept up.

The rich man owes his very existence, his prosperity to the fact that the law throws its mantle around him.

But it will not fail—it will succeed because we still have in us the spirit of the men of '61.

I am especially pleased that I am to take part in the dedication of an institution of learning where so much of the teaching is to be with direct view to an industrial betterment of the country.

I feel that as an American citizen it is proper for me to express to you and to those like you, the obligations that good Americans feel for what you and they have done in this university and in other educational institutions throughout…

All men are not only wicked but foolish if they complain because they are forced to obey the law.

We did it; and I hope the veterans of the great war feel that at least we showed the spirit they would want their sons and successors to show.

The American Navy was able in 1898 to add a new page to the honor of our republic because it had been built up during the preceding dozen years.

I ask this audience—I ask the State of Illinois—I ask the entire Union to see to it, that there is no fault in the upbuilding and the maintaining of the American navy.

I believe in [the Monroe Doctrine] with all my heart.

All that the law can do is to give a fair show to each man to develop the best there is in him, guarding him against injustice from others, and seeing that he works no injustice in return.

The man who seeks to inspire one set of Americans to hate another because of difference of creed, because of difference of locality, difference of occupation, or of wealth, is a curse to the republic.

We can not too highly honor him.

Of course if the law does not do that, it fails in its duty.

I have literally but a moment here.

Don't foul; don't flinch; and hit the line hard.

Good bye and good luck.