Stand just as quiet as possible; do not sway; just stand as quiet as possible.
I am anxious that our laws should be framed in the interest of those who intend to go there and stay there and bring up their children there...
I am happy to say that during the last year or two the National Legislature has begun to realize its responsibilities in reference to Alaska...
I confess I am for the moment a little surprised at the aspect of so many of the Alaskan pioneers.
We do not know the cost, but we know it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result;
The republics of antiquity and of the middle ages all failed and almost invariably because a bitter factional war began among them.
I believe in the pioneer, even when he is as well dressed as the pioneer I am addressing.
I congratulate Washington on its agriculture, its lumber, its mines, upon all that it produces, but most of all upon its crop of children.
With men such as you, and with two of your citizens, the father and mother of a boy like that, of course you are expansionists.
Never draw unless you mean to shoot.
The only shots that count are the shots that hit.