"All I ask is that you will not barter away Oregon or allow English interference until I can lead a band of stalwart American settlers across the plains. For this I shall try to do."
"I thank you from my heart for permitting me to participate in-doing homage to those brave souls. I rejoice particularly in the opportunity afforded me of voicing my appreciation, both as President of ..."
"I loved the martial notes of those stirring verses as a boy. I love them still."
"My Countrymen: As I stand here in the shadow of the great hills, my mind reverts to the placid banks of the broad Potomac."
"Mr. Secretary, you would better give all New England for the cod and mackerel fisheries of Newfoundland than to barter away Oregon,"
"Doctor Whitman, your long ride and frozen limbs testify to your courage and your patriotism. Your credentials establish your character. Your request is granted."
"And finally, as just a human being, I wish I could find words to tell you how glad I am to see you all, and reflecting as you do, from untroubled eyes, the happiness of spirit breathed by your own bes..."
"I believe our policy, and its results, have reflected the sound judgment of the overwhelming majority of the American people."
"It will be righteous and just, it will be more effective in war and marked by less regret in the aftermath, if we draft all of capital, all of industry, all of agriculture, all of commerce, all of tal..."
"The best test of policy is by results."
"I am quite aware that there were some who imagined, before the present administration was voted into responsibility, that it was going at least to acquiesce if not definitely sympathize with projects ..."
"If war must come again—God grant that it shall not!—then we must draft all of the nation in carrying on."
"One of the greatest lessons which the World War taught to society was a realization of its stupendous producing capacity under modern organization."
"Through such effort as this there will be opportunity for a great service."
"Those who were sure that our salvation lay in the destruction of organized labor and the precipitated reduction of wages have found that the national administration was not disposed to Acquiesce in th..."
"We have come thus far, and thus fortunately, through the most difficult period of reconstruction that we have ever known."
"Ours is an individualistic society and we want it to remain so."
"The aim and object of our every policy must be the establishment and maintenance of an independent and self-respecting, reliant and industrious, intelligent and self-helpful American citizenship."
