What great nation in such circumstances would not have taken up arms?
Woe be to the man or group of men that seeks to stand in our way in this day of high resolution when every principle we hold dearest is to b...
They did not originate or desire this hideous war or wish that we should be drawn into it; and we are vaguely conscious that we are fighting...
It is hereby ordered that through the Secretary of the Navy there be taken over to the United States the immediate possession and title of a...
In each case in which the War Department requests authority under this order it shall furnish to the Commission a list giving the name, desi...
The Civil Service Commission may, in its discretion, when it believes such action to be in the interest of the service, authorize the employ...
I do not pity them. I envy them, rather, because theirs is the great work for liberty accomplished, and we are in the midst of a work unfini...
For, my friends, the real fruition of life is to do the thing we have said we wished to do.
When you reflect upon it, these men who died to preserve the Union died to preserve the instrument which we are now using to serve the world...
In this thing America attains her full dignity and the full fruition of her great purpose.
We did not set this government up that we might have a selfish and separate liberty, for we are now ready to come to your assistance and fig...