West Pointers have risen to the first rank in all the occupations of civil life.
Your duty here at West Point has been to fit men to do well in war.
You must be doctors and military men and able administrators.
I welcome you here, and I am glad to have the chance of seeing you, and I wish to say a word of congratulation to you upon this Association.
Pay all possible heed to the scientific side of your work; perfect yourselves as scientific men able to work with the best and most delicate...
I am glad to have the opportunity to bid welcome to the members of this Association and their friends to—day.
It is a good custom for our country to have certain solemn holidays in commemoration of our greatest men and of the greatest crises in our h...
On July 4 we celebrate the birth of the nation; on this day, the 30th of May, we call to mind the deaths of those who died that the nation m...
All cruelty is forbidden, and all harshness beyond what is called for by need.
The warfare that has extended the boundaries of civilization at the expense of barbarism and savagery has been for centuries one of the most...
Washington and Lincoln—the man who did most to found the Union, and the man who did most to preserve it—stand head and shoulders above all o...