Let each man strive to excel his fellows only by rendering substantial service to the community in which he lives.
People can govern themselves only by practicing the virtues of moderation, self-restraint, of understanding that the simple homely virtues o...
We cannot, any of us, afford to differ about the question of honesty in public life, decency and cleanliness in private life.
The same spirit that made them valiant in battle made them, when they came home from battle, take up the strings of their lives where they h...
I am for a canal.
Now, I hold that as a matter of public policy, whatever helps a part of our country helps the whole.
Children of to-day are going to decide what our country shall be in the immediate future, and accordingly as they are brought up well or ill...
Think how fortunate we are as a people that, whereas, most great wars leave memories of rancor and bitterness, we now have the right of Amer...
In that regiment I had more men whose fathers had worn the gray than I had whose fathers had worn the blue; but they united in the generous ...
The last time I came through your great and beautiful State I was with my regiment on the way to the Spanish War.
I cannot sufficiently express my appreciation of the magnificent greeting that you have given me to-day.