"Gentlemen and ladies, it has always been a pleasure to me to come here to your city."
"You have hay and stock farms outside, and you, therefore, have in this community the farmer and the towns man, the employer and the wage worker."
"The good citizenship has to come from the people themselves."
"You can give a child every advantage, give him books and the teachers, but he has got to learn, he has got to do that himself."
"You have manufactories in your town—shoes, linen, underwear."
"You can frame laws and have a good constitution, and after all has been done that you can do in that way you have accomplished simply the creating of conditions which render it possible to have good c..."
"There is no royal road to good government any more than there is a royal road to learning."
"It has been to me a very great pleasure to visit your State, and above all, to meet your people."
"If any man tells you that he can advance a specific by which all the evils of the body politic will be made to disappear, distrust him, for if he is honest he knows not what he says."
"Let's devote our best thought and best energies to finding some method of getting rid of any and all evils in the body politic."
"There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering."
"Face the problem; realize its gravity, and then approach it in a spirit that will keep it ever in mind that if we are to succeed at all, it must be by each doing to the best of his capacity his own bu..."
"Do your work and do it up to the handle and then play when you have got time to play, and if you are worth anything enjoy that, too."
"Let us above all things beware in using the knife not to handle it so that it will be dangerous to the community even more than to the evil attacked."
"Our officers and men on the march and in battle showed themselves not unworthy of you, the men of the great war."
"We are all loyal Americans now—North, South, East and West—all alike jealous of the nation's honor and welfare."
"Let's try to get rid of them, but let's show common sense in the effort."
"In this life as a rule the job that is easy to do is not very well worth while doing."
