If he did not have a fighting edge, his patriotism did not count.
Now that was not enough, no matter how patriotic a man was in 1861.
The worst crime against this nation which can be committed by any man is the crime of dishonesty, whether in public life...
Such action, however, required a special exception to the rules.
The Commission therefore refused to recommend a special exception to the rules unless he would prove that he was eligibl...
by virtue of the authority in me vested, and in pursuance of said Act of the Congress, approved July 1, 1902, do hereby ...
The man who is content to go through life owing his alma mater for an education for which he has made no adequate return...
Do not make threats at all, but if it becomes necessary to say what, in a certain contingency we are going to do, say it...
I do not wish us ever as a nation to take a position from which we have to retreat.
Years count differently at different places and at different times.
He is in honor bound to make such return.