"We are at peace with all the rest of mankind."
"Into our care the ten talents have been entrusted; and we are to be pardoned neither if we squander and waste them, nor yet if we hide them in a napkin; for they must be fruitful in our hands."
"Much has been given us from on high, and much will rightly be expected of us in return."
"During the past year we have been free from famine, from pestilence, from war."
"Once again the season of the year has come when, in accordance with the custom of our forefathers for generations past, the president appoints a day as the special occasion for all our people to give ..."
"All persons are especially admonished from attempting to settle upon, occupy, or improve any of these lands prior to December 20, 1907, except those making entry in accordance with the terms of this P..."
"Any qualified person desiring to make entry of any of these lands shall execute in person within the limits of the Pierre, South Dakota, land district an affidavit showing his qualifications to enter ..."
"such of said lands as are unreserved and undisposed of shall on and after date hereof be subject to disposition under the general provisions of the homestead, townsite laws and of Sec. 2455 R.S., as a..."
"To them it was given to perform the one feat with which no other feat can be compared, for to them it was given to preserve the Union."
"There must be progressive legislative and administrative action for the correction of the evils which every sincere man must admit to have existed in railroad management in the past."
"For he died in the fulness of time, serving his country with entire devotion—a death that every man may well envy."