"Proud of your State? Of course you are proud of your State."
"None of the men of my own generation or of this younger, stand as close to me as you of my regiment, as the men of the Spanish War do,"
"I most earnestly hope that this work will ever be of a peaceful character"
"The pioneer days have gone, but the need for the old pioneer virtues remains as great as ever."
"I thank you for coming here and for giving me the privilege of joining with you today in these solemn ceremonies of commemoration."
"This is a government of freemen"
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in ..."
"I am deeply touched by the beautiful gift you have given me."
"I want to thank you and my comrades of the Spanish-American War from my heart;"
"It is not too much to say that no man since Lincoln was as widely and as universally beloved in this country as was President McKinley."
"I guess you do not wonder that I am fond of the men of my regiment."
"I trust I came within them a fairly good American, and I leave them a better American."
"I should be sorry indeed if there were not societies like those of the Native Sons and Native Daughters in this State to keep alive the sense of historic continuity with the State's mighty past."
"There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship."
"It would be hard to overestimate the amount of good work done by the Young Men's Christian Associations and the Young Women's Christian Associations."
"It will be a bad day for this country and a worse day for all educative institutions in this country if ever such a call is made, and the men of college training do not feel it peculiarly incumbent up..."
"There is but one real way in which any man can be helped, and that is by teaching him to help himself."
"Let me thank you for coming out to see me, and say how I have enjoyed coming here."
