"Let's try to get rid of them, but let's show common sense in the effort."
"We need, in order successfully to face the difficult and complex problems of our industrial civilization, all the courage and loyalty, and all the faith, and clearsighted sanity and purpose which ther..."
"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."
"To you alone it was given to face with victorious valor the one crisis in which not merely the nation's welfare but the nation's life was at stake."
"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..."
"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."
"And the best possible safeguard for this nation is an adequate and highly efficient navy."
"We ought to say it as a reminder to us that we are not to be excused if in the future we do any less well than has been done in the past."
"You preserved for us a united country and showed the world that it was ever to be united."
"The true line of cleavage lies between good citizen and bad citizen."
"Each of us, unless he is contented to be a cumberer of the earth's surface, must strive to do his life-work with his whole heart."
"The man who lives simply, and justly, and honor ably, whether rich or poor, is a good citizen."
"You men who fought in that war did the greatest deed which men have ever done."
"No nation can face greatness without having to face trial."
"If he won't try to walk himself he is not worth carrying."
"An equal meed of praise belongs to those men who prepared in advance."
"It is our duty to lift him up; but it is also our duty to remember that there is no earthly use in trying to carry him."
"Self-help and individual initiative remain to a peculiar degree typical of life in the country, life on a farm, in the lumbering camp, on a ranch."
