In the first place, it is a bad thing for Troy if Troy will not stand idealism; and in the next place it is a poor type of ideal that is of no use in Troy.

As a people I think we are waking up to the fact that there must be better pay for the average man and average woman engaged in the work of education.

It is generally our own fault if he does damage to us, for he damages us chiefly by arousing our envy or by rendering us sour and discontented.

Let each man feel that if such work can be well done it is in itself the amplest reward and the amplest prize.

The people to whom this country owes and will owe much are those who stay down there and do not talk, but do their work, and do it well.

Now let it be understood once for all that no just and orderly government on this continent has anything to fear from us.

A famine or a plague in one country brings much sympathy and some assistance from other countries.

This is enabling the poor harassed people of Santo Domingo once more to turn their attention to industry and to be free from the curse of interminable revolutionary disturbance.

You colored men who show in business life both ability and a high order of integrity are real benefactors not only of your race but of the whole country.

But the good sense and self-restraint of the average American citizen falsified these prophecies.

The crime of brutal disregard of the rights of others is as much a crime when it manifests itself in the shape of greed and brutal arrogance on the one side, as when it manifests itself in the shape of envy and lawless violence on the…

You are showing in practical fashion your realization of the truth that there must be a foundation of material well-being in order that any community may make real and rapid progress.

All the higher Appalachians should be reserved, either by the States or by the Nation.

The children who will rise up to call their parents blessed are those whom the parents have trained to meet difficulties, not to shirk them; to overcome obstacles, not to get out of the way for them.

Our aim should be to strive to keep the reign of justice alive in this country so that we shall above all things avoid the chance of ever dividing on the lines that separate one class from another, one occupation from another.

In this world of ours it is practically impossible to get success of any kind on a large scale without paying something for it.

We have to war against the same evil tendencies in our own souls; we have to strive to give expression to the same aspirations toward righteousness, toward honor.

If you think he is acting in a way so misguided that he will bring ruin to the State or Nation, say so.

It has nothing to do with parties or partisanship, and is being carried on with absolute disregard to all merely political considerations; with regard only to efficiency, honesty, and economy.

Wherever possible we should gladly give any aid we can to a weaker sister republic which is endeavoring to achieve stability and prosperity.

The bulk have got to be men engaged in the trades, as mechanics, as wage-workers, as farmers.

Every man who is a good farmer, a thrifty, progressive, saving mechanic, who owns his own house, who is free from debt, and able to bring up his children well, and to keep his wife as she should be kept, is not only a first-class citizen…

Speaking broadly, the man who does that is the man whom you can trust if the need for heroism arises.

The boy or girl won’t turn out that kind of a man or woman if not brought up in that spirit from the beginning.

It is in the interest and for the protection of the white man to see that the negro is educated.