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 lif...
It is impossible to devise anyone perfect solution, and one complete solution, for all the problems of our latter-day in...
The Government, national and state, can mighty easily spoil chances for all of us.
In the army you developed two or three or half a dozen great geniuses.
No improvement in firearms, no perfection of equipment, no change in tactics will avail unless back of them all lies the...
Our salvation now, as in the old days, lies in the practical applying of principles that, in theory, we admit to be the ...
That is how the victory comes.
If we have not got in us the lift toward righteousness, the lift toward something better than material needs, prosperity...
Our honor at home, our honor in domestic and internal affairs, is at all times in our own keeping, and depends simply up...
We have many external problems to solve, but our internal problems are, of course, more serious.
One secret, perhaps I might say the chief secret, of Mr. Blaine's extraordinary hold upon the affections of his countrym...
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...
It is always pleasant to point to an example which we can follow rather than avoid.
Rifles now instead of bows then, but the man behind the rifle is more important than the rifle itself.
You can do a good deal through the town, but you can do more for the town than it can do for you.
The government can do something—it can do a good deal—but it never can begin to do as much for the individual as the ind...
I have come here less to teach than to learn
