"More than that we need strong minds, and finally we need what counts for more than body, for more than mind—character."
"I think our citizens are more and more realizing that they wish to perpetuate the things that are of use and also the things that are of beauty."
"I am glad to be welcomed by all of you, but most of all by the men of the Grand Army, and after them by my own comrades of the National Guard."
"I am glad to see you, I believe in you, and I thank you."
"Good laws can do much. Good administration of the laws can do much."
"I greet you today. I am glad to be here in your beautiful country."
"I welcome you all."
"One thing that strikes me more than anything else as I go through the country."
"Down at bottom we are the same people all through."
"I congratulate you upon all that has been done, and I am certain that the future will far more than make good the past."
"There can be no greater privilege than to meet a missionary who has done good work."
"There was in the regiment but one kind of rivalry among those men, and but one would have been tolerated."
"I should count myself wholly unworthy of the position I hold if I did not strive to represent the people of the mountains and the plains exactly as much as those of the Mississippi Valley or of either..."
"You know well the claim that comradeship in war makes between man and man."
"How could I help being fond of people with whom I have worked, with whom I marched to battle?"
"Of all the work that is done or that can be done for our country, the greatest is that of educating the body, the mind, and above all the character, giving spiritual and moral training to those who in..."
"I appreciate to the full all the difficulties under which you labor, and I think that your progress has been astonishing."
"The policy is a policy of encouragement to the home-maker, to the man who comes to establish his home."
