While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election, and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for h...
In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as ...
Yes, and have the 'big stick', too, but do not brandish it.
May I ask those who have not differed with me to join with me in this same spirit toward those who have?
Besides acting squarely, talk politely.
In addition to the foregoing recommendation I urge that Congress emphasize the value set by our people upon the achievem...
To speak discourteously, insultingly, does not do them any harm; it may irritate them, and therefore, it may do us some ...
But he felt only love, a love as deep as the tenderness of his great and sad heart, for all his country men alike in the...
It is a discredit to be dishonest, just as it is a discredit to be a coward.
So long as I have been here I have not willingly planted a thorn in any man's bosom.
For my own part, I have striven and shall strive to avoid placing any obstacle in the way.
It is eminently fitting that these services should now be commemorated in suitable manner.
Surely this is the spirit which all Americans should show now, when there is so little excuse for malice or rancor or ha...
Let us, therefore, study the incidents of this as philosophy to learn wisdom from, and none of them as wrongs to be reve...
The strife of the election is but human nature practically applied to the facts of the case.
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.
I recommend, therefore, that provision be made for the appointment of a board of surveys to superintend the national sur...
