Nothing should be allowed to interfere with the preservation of Niagara Falls in all their beauty and majesty.

Adequate provision should be made by the Congress for the proper care and supervision of all these National parks.

The boundaries of the Yellowstone National Park should be extended to the south and east, to take in such portions of the abutting forest reservations as will enable the Government to protect the elk on their Winter range.

I call your especial attention to the desirability of giving to the members of the Life Saving Service pensions such as are given to firemen and policemen in all our great cities.

The men in the Life Saving Service continually and in the most matter of fact way do deeds such as make Americans proud of their country.

Unless we now provide with ample forethought for the medical needs of the Army and Navy, appalling suffering of a preventable kind is sure to occur if ever the country goes to war.

We need men who are not merely doctors; they must be trained in the administration of military medical service.

Thus it would have been far better never to have built a single one of these monitors and to have put the money into an ample supply of reserve guns.

But it is of course true that the man behind the gun, the man in the engine room, and the man in the conning tower, considered not only individually, but especially with regard to the way in which they work together, are even more…

Our laws and customs tell immensely in favor of the criminal and against the interests of the public he has wronged.

Some antiquated and outworn rules, which once safeguarded the threatened rights of private citizens, now merely work harm to the general body politic.

So far as in my power lies each and every such wrongdoer shall be relentlessly hunted down; in no instance in the past has he been spared; in no instance in the future shall he be spared.

If you save money, secure homes, become taxpayers, and lead clean, decent, modest lives, you will win the respect of your neighbors of both races.

The colored people have many difficulties to pass through, but these difficulties will be surmounted if only the policy of reason and common-sense is pursued.

What you have done in the past is an indication of what you will be able to accomplish in the future under wise leadership.

Moral and industrial education is what is most needed, in order that this progress may continue.

It must learn to wait and bide its time; to prove itself worthy by showing its possession of perseverance, of thrift, of self-control.

Remember also that the white man who can be of most use to the colored man is that colored man’s neighbor.

The future of the South now depends upon the people of both races living up to the spirit and letter of the laws of their several States and working out the destinies of both races, not as races, but as law-abiding American citizens.

Our influence in the Orient must be kept at such a pitch as will ensure our being able to guarantee fair treatment to our merchants and manufacturers by China.

We must insist upon having fair treatment; and as a step toward getting it we must give fair treatment in return.

I would demand that on ethical grounds alone; I would demand it also on grounds of self-interest.

There never can be, there never will be a good government in which the average citizen is not a decent man in private life.

The vital things in life are the things that foolish people look upon as commonplace.

It is demanded not merely for commercial but for political and military considerations.