I like to see a man who is a good citizen.
It is the man behind the gun in war, and it is the man behind the plough in peace.
You have shown that you appreciated the fact that to be a good citizen a man has got to handle himself not with a view t...
Both must be put down.
I believe in preaching, but I believe in practice a good deal more.
You ought not to want to see it anyway; but only now and then comes the chance to do the good work in war.
It is a great thing to have had forefathers who did their work well in the world.
Gentlemen and ladies, it has always been a pleasure to me to come here to your city.
It is not enough, gentlemen, to mean well either in battle or in civil life; you not only had to mean well, you had to d...
The best is none too good for this Republic.
Violence of the individual, above all, violence of a mob—that type of violence—is incompatible with free government, wit...
I ask for honesty. I ask for courage.
It will not be worth while summoning our people to do well in war if they have not done well in peace beforehand.
For that I do not pity them. I admire them.
I think there is but one class of people who deserve as well as the soldiers and those are they who teach the children o...
You have got to have— you of the Civil War, you fought with widely different weapons and widely different tactics from t...
I think that this is a State that favors longevity.
I despise the man who will not work.
