We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.

When we come to dealing with our social and industrial needs, remedies, rights and wrongs, a ton of oratory is not worth an ounce of hard-headed, kindly common-sense.

The more a healthy American sees of his fellow-Americans the greater grows his conviction that our chief troubles come from mutual misunderstanding, from failure to appreciate one another’s point of view.

No nation capable of self-government, and of developing by its own efforts a sane and orderly civilization, no matter how small it may be, has anything to fear from us.

But he carried within him memories of inestimable benefit to himself, and he bequeathed to us who come after him the priceless heritage of his example.

The bare recital of the facts is sufficient to show that we did our duty; and what prouder title to honor can a nation have than to have done its duty?

The true American has never feared to run risks when the prize to be won was of sufficient value.

We have done our duty ourselves, and we have done the higher duty of promoting the civilization of mankind.

In the breasts of the men who saw Appomattox there was no room for the growth of the jealous, greedy, sullen envy which makes anarchy, which has bred the red Commune.

We work in a spirit of self-respect for ourselves and of good-will toward others, in a spirit of love for and of infinite faith in mankind.

In other words, the great need is fellow-feeling, sympathy, brotherhood; and all this naturally comes by association.

It is eminently wise and proper to strive for such leisure in our lives as will give a chance for self-improvement; but woe to the man who seeks, or trains up his children to seek, idleness instead of the chance to do good work.

Our energies, as a rule, can be employed to much better advantage in uplifting some than in pulling down others.

Such an attitude will be the surest possible guarantee of that self-respecting peace, the attainment of which is and must ever be the prime aim of a self-governing people.

Then let us make it equally evident that we will not tolerate injustice being done to us in return.

Let us further make it evident that we use no words which we are not prepared to back up with deeds, and that while our speech is always moderate, we are ready and willing to make it good.

We can feel proud of what others did only because of what you did.

All that is needful is that it should continue to be a cardinal feature of American policy on this continent; and the Spanish-American states should, in their own interests, champion it as strongly as we do.

In private life there are few beings more obnoxious than the man who is always loudly boasting; and if the boaster is not prepared to back up his words his position becomes absolutely contemptible.

It is both foolish and undignified to indulge in undue self-glorification, and, above all, in loose-tongued denunciation of other peoples.

The realization of the underlying brotherhood of our people, the feeling that there should be among them an essential unity of purpose and sympathy, must be kept close at heart if we are to do our work well here in our American life.

We do not by this doctrine intend to sanction any policy of aggression by one American commonwealth at the expense of any other, nor any policy of commercial discrimination against any foreign power whatsoever.

No prosperity and no glory can save a nation that is rotten at heart.

We must ever keep the core of our national being sound, and see to it that not only our citizens in private life, but, above all, our statesmen in public life, practice the old, commonplace virtues which from time immemorial have lain at…

But we may be certain of one thing: whether we wish it or not, we can not avoid hereafter having duties to do in the face of other nations.