"Here we care nothing for the boy's birthplace, nor his creed, nor his social standing."
"West Pointers have risen to the first rank in all the occupations of civil life."
"I am glad to have the opportunity to bid welcome to the members of this Association and their friends to—day."
"You must be doctors and military men and able administrators."
"I welcome you here, and I am glad to have the chance of seeing you, and I wish to say a word of congratulation to you upon this Association."
"Pay all possible heed to the scientific side of your work; perfect yourselves as scientific men able to work with the best and most delicate apparatus; and never for one moment forget—especially the h..."
"There were other crises in which to have gone wrong would have meant disaster; but this was the one crisis in which to have gone wrong would have meant not merely disaster but annihilation."
"Just at this moment the Army of the United States, led by men who served among you in the great war, is carrying to completion a small but peculiarly trying and difficult war."
"The warfare that has extended the boundaries of civilization at the expense of barbarism and savagery has been for centuries one of the most potent factors in the progress of humanity."
"We believe that we can rapidly teach the people of the Philippine Islands not only how to enjoy but how to make good use of their freedom."
"Washington and Lincoln—the man who did most to found the Union, and the man who did most to preserve it—stand head and shoulders above all our other public men."
"It is a good custom for our country to have certain solemn holidays in commemoration of our greatest men and of the greatest crises in our history."