The same qualities that count in the army and the navy are what we need and wish to make the best civilization in the world.

I admire a great many of Massachusetts' products, but I think the product of the children is the best.

I demand that the nation do its duty, accept responsibility that must go with greatness.

I am sure there is not a father or mother that will not agree with me that of all the bodies of men and women in this country, that one to which we owe the most because of their profession is the body of school teachers.

I ask that the nation dare to be great, and that in daring to be great it show how to do justice to the weak no less than to exact justice from the strong.

If you have to choose between being noxious and merely harmless, of course, choose to be harmless.

I am very glad to be traveling through Massachusetts, to see your beautiful country, your landscape and rivers, your factories, and, above all, your men and women.

It is a great pleasure to come here and stop for a few minutes at the place where my predecessor, President McKinley, was so fond of staying.

These same children are the men and women who, 15 or 20 years hence, will be shaping the destiny of this nation, and they will shape it well or ill, accordingly as they are now brought up.

If he does not secure such legal evidence, no amount of popular feeling is to be allowed to be substituted for the legal evidence.

All I asked on behalf of the people of the United States was that Santo Domingo should be good and happy.

That sort of kindness is a curse for those for whom it is nominally exercised.

Keep on building and maintaining at the highest point of efficiency the United States navy, or quit trying to be a big nation.

Have high ideals but try to realize them in practical shape.

All the statesman needs to do is to exercise common sense, and stick as close to the Golden Rule as his imperfect human nature will permit.

I do not wish in politics two entirely separate groups, one composed of the men who mean well, and cannot do anything, and the other of the men who are thoroughly efficient, but do not mean well at all.

We must keep our minds upon the essentials and not upon the non-essentials.

I want to see this nation not only strong, but just, and not only just, but strong.

I have always felt most strongly that it is true of the nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.

Put justice first; it will generally lead to peace; but follow it wherever it leads.

The greatest problem before our people, as before every modern people, is the problem of getting justice as between man and man.

Ruskin said that what counted was the work that was done not for the fees, but for the work's sake.

We want to see the individual American a decent man, but nothing but a decent man.

Every man that graduates here has received something, and something big, for which he has made no return, and for which he can never make any return to the men giving it.

You have given to the country the kind of service no money can possibly buy.