Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Upon your success depended all the future of the people on this continent, and much of the future of mankind as a whole.

Washington and Lincoln—the man who did most to found the Union, and the man who did most to preserve it—stand head and shoulders above all o...

All cruelty is forbidden, and all harshness beyond what is called for by need.

It is a good custom for our country to have certain solemn holidays in commemoration of our greatest men and of the greatest crises in our h...