"This is the first arid will be the only time during my Presidency that I shall ever introduce a speaker to an audience; and I am more than glad to do it in this instance."
"We have a right to be proud of a citizen like Mr. Downey."
"No republic can permanently exist when it becomes a republic of classes."
"It is not of the slightest use to hear the word, if you do not try to put it into effect afterward."
"We can act individually or we can act by associations."
"I wish to see courage, perseverance, the willingness to face work, to face, you men, if it is necessary, danger."
"I do not care very much for the coward or the moral weakling."
"You know I believe in children."
"The rules of good citizenship are tolerably simple."
"We have grown to accept it as an axiomatic truth of our American life that the man is to be treated on his worth as a man."
"The future of this country depends upon the way in which the average man or the average woman in it does his or her duty."