"Of course you must have the ability to stand up to the hammering; the courage, the daring, the resolution to endure."
"Officers and men alike must realize that in battle the only shots that count are the shots that hit."
"From now on throughout your lives there can be no slackness in the performance of duty on your part."
"A battleship cannot be improvised."
"It is hereby ordered that the north-west quarter of the north-west quarter and lot 4 of section 32, township one south, range 18 west, San Bernardino base and meridian, California, be and they are her..."
"As a mark of respect to the memory of J. Sterling Morton, formerly Secretary of Agriculture, the President directs that the National flag be displayed at half-mast upon the White House and other feder..."
"It is hereby ordered that the building known as the 'Residence' and the tract of land...be and they are hereby reserved and set apart for the Customs Service."
"The timid good man counts but little in the rough business of trying to do well the world's work."
"The only first-rate work is the work done by the man who does it for the sake of doing it well."
"If a man is strong in mind and body and misuses his strength then he becomes simply a foe to the body politic, to be hunted down by all decent men."
"If he does not have it, no matter what other qualities he may have, he will find himself at the mercy of those who, without possessing his desire to do right, know only too well how to make the wrong ..."
"If we think we can render it without taking the pains, if we think we can render it by feeling how nice it would be to render it—why, the value of that service will be but little."