"The same spirit that made them valiant in battle made them, when they came home from battle, take up the strings of their lives where they had dropped them when the appeal to arms came, and do their b..."
"Now, I hold that as a matter of public policy, whatever helps a part of our country helps the whole."
"What we need is not genius, not brilliancy, but the ordinary commonplace virtues that every man or woman can have, if only he or she will."
"Children of to-day are going to decide what our country shall be in the immediate future, and accordingly as they are brought up well or ill our country will go forward or backward in the years that a..."
"Uncle Sam has started to dig that canal, and it will be dug, and soon."
"I will take advice about appointing men, but if I find them crooked I do not take any advice at all about removing them."
"I am for a canal."
"We do not wish another foot of territory; and I think our conduct toward Cuba is a guaranty that this is our genuine attitude toward all our sister republics."
"Good night."
"We are knit together by the bond of our common interests in the future."
"This government is not, and never shall be, the government of a mob."
"If we treat the mighty heroes of the past merely as excuses for sitting lazily down in the present, or for standing aside from the rough work of the world, then these memories will prove a curse inste..."