Poor indeed would be the soul of the man who did not leave Montgomery a better American than he came into it, after being received as I have been received to-day.

No greater service is being rendered the American public to-day than by those members of the legal profession whose great good fortune it has been to stand forth as prominently identified with the prosecution of crimes against the state.

As the Judge has so well said, the minute a man becomes President he ceases being the President of a party and is the President of every man, woman, and child within the confines of the Nation.

If the law is reasonably speedy and reasonably sure it takes away one great excuse for lawlessness.

We have excellent Scriptural authority for the statement that it is well to beware when all men speak well of you; because it is an unfortunate feature of human nature that when they have appreciated a man up to the very last limit, they…

But I shall act against the abuses of wealth just as against all other abuses.

It is of benefit to our people; it is of benefit to foreign peoples; and most of all it is really of benefit to the people of the country concerned.

Too much praise can not be given to those who have done this work in Panama.

He did not care to have his name known, he did not desire to be immortalized in connection with the work; he cared only to make the work itself the best that it could possibly be made.

The ties that unite Germany and the United States are many and close, and it must be a prime object of our statesmanship to knit the two nations ever closer together.

The nature of the wild Indian has not changed.

They were relentless, revengeful, suspicious, knowing neither ruth nor pity; they were also upright, resolute, and fearless, loyal to their friends, and devoted to their country.

Their preachers, all Presbyterians, followed close behind the first settlers, and shared their toil and dangers; they tilled their fields rifle in hand, and fought the Indians valorously.

Boone's creed in matters of morality and religion was as simple and straightforward as his own character.

Nevertheless, it is the men actually on the borders of the longed-for ground, the men actually in contact with the savages, who in the end shape their own destinies.

It is impossible to dwell without a shudder on the monstrous woe and misery of such a contest.

The real war, the war in which by far the greatest loss was suffered by both sides, was that thus waged man against man.

In its essence, and viewed from the standpoint of abstract morality, their attitude was that of the freebooter.

The foremost statesmen of the Revolution were eminently practical politicians.

They did not need to give proof of a courage they had shown time and again in bloody battles against the best troops of Europe.

The Race Grows because its Interests Happen to be Identical with those of the Individual.

We can forgive all this; but we should not forget it.

Once roused, they have always been dangerous and hard-fighting foes; but they have been over-difficult to rouse.

They had none of that feeling which makes slave-owners look upon manual labor as a badge of servitude.

Inability to look facts in the face did not alter the facts.