The true line of cleavage lies between good citizen and bad citizen.
The only way to obtain good government is for each man to do his own share.
Shame upon the man who, when the opportunity to help is given, fails to stretch out the hand.
You believe practically that each man must work out his fate for himself.
The worth of a civilization is the worth of the man at its centre.
If he won't try to walk himself he is not worth carrying.
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 ...
And the best possible safeguard for this nation is an adequate and highly efficient navy.
Self-help and individual initiative remain to a peculiar degree typical of life in the country, life on a farm, in the l...
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.
An equal meed of praise belongs to those men who prepared in advance.
While modes of fighting were different in the time of Lincoln from that of Washington, and still more different today, t...
The best possible safeguard for this nation is an adequate and highly efficient navy.
You preserved for us a united country and showed the world that it was ever to be united.
You men who fought in that war did the greatest deed which men have ever done.
Almost all of our great Presidents have been brought up in the country.
That is how the victory comes.
The Government, national and state, can mighty easily spoil chances for all of us.
