"We have a right to expect that you will show your faith by your works."
"I am glad to have the chance of greeting you to-night."
"It is an admirable thing to have wealth if we use it aright and understand its relative value compared to the things of the spirit."
"Napoleon said that in war the moral was to the material as ten to one; and it is just exactly as true in civil and social life."
"The century that has closed has seen the conquest of this continent by our people."
"We must have thrift, business energy, business enterprise and all that spring from them, as the foundation upon which we are to build the great national superstructure."
"Every earnest and zealous believer, every man or woman who is a doer of the word and not a hearer only, is a lifelong missionary in his or her field of labor—a missionary by precept, and, by what coun..."
"It is a pleasure on behalf of the people of the United States to greet you and bid you welcome on this hundredth anniversary."
"The man who builds up is greater than he who tears down."
"The loyalty that counts is the loyalty which shows itself in deeds rather than in words."
"Without the work that you did the work of the men who fought the Revolution to a successful close would have meant nothing."
"Doing the duty well is what counts."
"Nothing more need be said than has been said already by those who have addressed you this afternoon."
"It is indeed appropriate that the Methodists of America...should found this great university in the city of Washington."
"It is indeed appropriate that the Methodists of America—the men belonging to that religious organization which furnished the pioneers in carving out of the West what is now the heart of the great Amer..."
"I thank you for having given me the opportunity this afternoon to come before you and to lay the corner-stone of this building."
"I earnestly commend this case of unexampled disaster to the generous consideration of the Congress."
"The disaster is complete; that the city of St. Pierre has ceased to exist."
