No more significant memorial could have been presented to the nation than this.

There is no means of judging the future except by assessing the past.

I am profoundly conscious of the responsibility which is mine.

I shall seek, as I have always sought, to purge my heart and purpose of every personal and of every misleading party motive.

Boasting is always an empty business, which pleases nobody but the boaster.

By virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, I do proclaim that the boundaries of the Tahoe National Forest in California are hereby changed.

I yield to no man in firm adherence, alike of conviction and of purpose, to the principle of arbitration in industrial disputes.

The whole presumption of modern experience would, it seemed to me, be in its favor, whether there was arbitration or not.

I was seeking to compose the present in order to safeguard the future.

I unhesitatingly offered the friendly services of the administration to the railway managers to see to it that justice was done the railroads in the outcome.

To undertake to arbitrate the question of the adoption of an eight-hour day in the light of results merely estimated and predicted would be to undertake an enterprise of conjecture.

We need them now and we shall continue to need them.