"Honorable Richard L. Metcalfe shall be Vice-Chairman."
"Colonel George W. Goethals, now Governor of the Panama Canal, shall be Chairman of this committee."
"No man who thinks first of himself and afterwards of his country can call himself an American."
"You need alliances when you are not strong, and you are weak only when you are not true to yourself."
"We are expected to put the utmost energy of every power that we have into the service of our fellow-men, never sparing ourselves, not condescending to think of what is going to happen to ourselves, bu..."
"I never went into battle; I never was under fire; but I fancy that there are some things just as hard to do as to go under fire."
"The time during which a consul may be unavoidably detained at his post while waiting for a conveyance to the United States, after delivering up the office, may be included in his home transit so far a..."
"I therefore come to ask your approval that I should use the armed forces of the United States in such ways and to such an extent as may be necessary to obtain from General Huerta and his adherents the..."
"There can in what we do be no thought of aggression or of selfish aggrandizement."
"We seek to maintain the dignity and authority of the United States only because we wish always to keep our great influence unimpaired for the uses of liberty, both in the United States and wherever el..."
"No communication I have addressed to the Congress carried with it graver or more far-reaching implications as to the interest of the country."