"Rifles now instead of bows then, but the man behind the rifle is more important than the rifle itself."
"We won out because our fathers had iron in their blood, because they dared greatly and did greatly, because when they were convinced where their duty lay they resolutely did it, no matter what the cos..."
"It is a much easier thing to tell people that you have got a patent recipe that—will save them from having to take trouble themselves than it is to tell them perfectly plain, homely truths."
"An efficient navy of adequate size is not only the best guarantee of peace, but is also the surest means for seeing that if war does come the result shall be honorable to our good name and favorable t..."
"It is always pleasant to point to an example which we can follow rather than avoid."
"The Government, national and state, can mighty easily spoil chances for all of us."
"We have got to do it somehow, and I ask that all men stand shoulder to shoulder as Americans to see that they do it well."
"We will govern them primarily in their interests, but in our own interests also."
"One secret, perhaps I might say the chief secret, of Mr. Blaine's extraordinary hold upon the affections of his countrymen was his entirely genuine and unaffected Americanism."
"We are all of us apt to get to talking and thinking of the nation and the state as abstractions."
"Government by the majority in Congress had practically come to a stop when Mr. Reed became Speaker."
"We should not be here if it were not for them, but their exercise has caused great questions to rise in our national life."
"He has got in the first place to be honest and decent."
"We need other things, too; we have got to have a proper ideal of our lives; each man must do his duty by his neighbor."
"In the army you developed two or three or half a dozen great geniuses."
"Our salvation now, as in the old days, lies in the practical applying of principles that, in theory, we admit to be the only principles according to which it is possible to administer this Republic."
"Never in their history has each man had, as he has now, such a good chance for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
"That is how the victory comes."
