These Associations of yours try to make men self-helpful and to help them when they are self-helpful.

It will not be any the less fruitful of wrong and misery if, as is so often the case with evil motives, it adopts some high-sounding alias.

The ranges must be treated as a great invested capital; and that old system tended to dissipate and partially to destroy that capital.

A good American never owes anything that he does not seek to repay.

Our whole effort should be toward securing a combination of the strong qualities with those qualities which we term virtues.

It is no use to preach to them if you do not act decently yourself.

There is no good in your preaching to your boys to be brave, if you run away.

The two feelings, envy and arrogance, are but opposite sides of the same shield, but different developments of the same spirit.

You left us a reunited country; reunited in fact as well as in name.

It is a great and glorious thing for a nation to be stirred to present triumph by the splendid memories of triumphs in the past.

North and South alike it has been my sedulous endeavor to appoint only men of high character and good capacity, whether white or black.

Of course mob violence is simply one form of anarchy; and anarchy is now, as it always has been, the handmaiden and forerunner of tyranny.

What is needed is proved power of command and capacity to work well in the field.

We desire, in common with most civilized nations, to reduce to the lowest possible point the damage sustained in time of war by peaceable trade and commerce.

By the provisions of the treaty the United States guarantees and will maintain the independence of the Republic of Panama.

There have been many revolutionary movements, many movements for the dismemberment of countries, which were evil, tried by any standard.

At the same time a change should never be shirked on the ground of its being radical, when the abuse has become flagrant and no other remedy appears possible.

But the corporations owning valuable public franchises must pay their full and proper share of the public burdens.

In others, a remedy can be applied, but as yet only at a cost that would make it worse than the trouble itself.

So far from liberty, from freedom, from responsible self-government, being things that come easily and to any peoples, they are peculiarly things that can come only to the highly developed peoples.

If a boy has not got pluck and honesty and common-sense he is a pretty poor creature; and he is a worse creature if he is a man and lacks any one of those three traits.

They stood for the life of effort, not the life of ease.

Yet I think that as a people we need more to learn the lesson of Valley Forge even than that of Gettysburg.

Effective government comes only as the result of the loyal co-operation of many different persons.

We earnestly desire friendship with all the nations of the New and Old Worlds; and we endeavor to place our relations with them upon a basis of reciprocal advantage instead of hostility.