"I believe in the Monroe doctrine, and I believe in it not as an empty formula of words, but as something we are ready to make good by deeds."
"I believe in doing all we can to avoid a quarrel, to avoid trouble."
"You have done this great work of building up a new community."
"We are living right in the middle of them now, only we are living under pleasanter auspices."
"Character has two sides."
"The thing that has impressed me most is that I am speaking to Americans just as I speak in any other section of the country!"
"We can solve aright all the difficult problems that come up because of and through our modern civilization."
"Ours is a government of equal rights under the law, guaranteeing those rights to each man so long as he in his turn refrains from wronging his brother."
"Any man who claims that there can be liberty in spite of and against the law is claiming that anarchy is liberty."
"We are all pretty much alike."
"I always envy you men of the Grand Army because you do not have to preach; you practiced."
"It is, of course, the merest truism to say that important though it is to develop factories, railroads, farms, commerce, the thing that counts is the development of citizenship."
"The first thing that the individual man has to do is to pull his own weight, to earn his own way, not to be a drag on the community."
"Each one of us must remember that any one may and will at times slip."
"In the war you had to have patriotism, but there was but little to be made of the man who was patriotic but who had a tendency to run away."
"In any regiment the man who has no loyalty to his fellows, no spirit of devotion to the flag, no desire to see the regiment stand high, to do his duty and see his fellows rise with him, that man, no m..."
"To think of the well-nigh incredible fact that all of this that I have been looking at—the city, the development of the country—that it has all occurred within twenty years."
"In saying good-by to you I want to say that it has been the greatest pleasure to see you."