"We are Americans, and that means that we treat Americanism primarily as a matter of spirit and purpose."
"It is hereby ordered that the north-west quarter of the north-west quarter and lot 4 of section 32, township one south, range 18 west, San Bernardino base and meridian, California, be and they are her..."
"It is hereby ordered that the building known as the 'Residence' and the tract of land...be and they are hereby reserved and set apart for the Customs Service."
"As a mark of respect to the memory of J. Sterling Morton, formerly Secretary of Agriculture, the President directs that the National flag be displayed at half-mast upon the White House and other feder..."
"To you much has been given, and woe and shame to you if we cannot rightfully expect much from you in return."
"Not one in a hundred of us is fit to be in the highest sense a productive scholar, but all of us are entirely fit to do decent service if we care to take the pains."
"The only first-rate work is the work done by the man who does it for the sake of doing it well."
"The man who counts is the man who is decent and who makes himself felt as a force for decency, for cleanliness, for civic righteousness."
"If we think we can render it without taking the pains, if we think we can render it by feeling how nice it would be to render it—why, the value of that service will be but little."
"When it comes to rendering service, that which counts chiefly with a college graduate, as with any other American citizen, is not intellect so much as what stands above mere power of body, or mere pow..."
"If a man is strong in mind and body and misuses his strength then he becomes simply a foe to the body politic, to be hunted down by all decent men."