The strife of the election is but human nature practically applied to the facts of the case.
To speak discourteously, insultingly, does not do them any harm; it may irritate them, and therefore, it may do us some ...
In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as ...
May I ask those who have not differed with me to join with me in this same spirit toward those who have?
The great interest which our people feel in the story of Paul Jones's life, the national sense of gratitude for the grea...
Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be reve...
Human nature will not change.
It is not a matter of credit to be honest, any more than it is a matter of credit to a soldier to be brave.
In addition to the foregoing recommendation I urge that Congress emphasize the value set by our people upon the achievem...
This is the spirit in which mighty Lincoln sought to bind up the nation's wounds when its soul was yet seething with fie...
It is a discredit to be dishonest, just as it is a discredit to be a coward.
It is eminently fitting that these services should now be commemorated in suitable manner.
May not all having a common interest reunite in a common effort to serve our common country?
In compliance with a resolution of the House of Representatives dated the 4th instant (the Senate concurring), I return ...
The islands of that group present as many interesting and novel questions with respect to their ethnology, their fauna a...
The surveys, while of course beneficial to the people of the Philippine Islands, should be undertaken as a national work...
I recommend, therefore, that provision be made for the appointment of a board of surveys to superintend the national sur...
Only preliminary explorations have yet been made in the archipelago, and it should be a matter of pride to the Governmen...