This is not and never shall be a government of a mob.

The supreme safety of our country is to be found in the fearless and honest administration of the law of the land.

I feel that as an American citizen it is proper for me to express to you and to those like you, the obligations that good Americans feel for what you and they have done in this university and in other educational institutions throughout…

I am especially pleased that I am to take part in the dedication of an institution of learning where so much of the teaching is to be with direct view to an industrial betterment of the country.

All men are not only wicked but foolish if they complain because they are forced to obey the law.

It is a great pleasure to have the chance of coming before you and saying a word of greeting to you today.

All men are not merely wicked, but foolish, if they ask privileges to violate the law.

But it will not fail—it will succeed because we still have in us the spirit of the men of '61.

The rich man owes his very existence, his prosperity to the fact that the law throws its mantle around him.

I have literally but a moment here.

If we did not go through the trials and troubles that they did, we at least did the best we could.

Had it not been for the word the deeds could not have taken place; but without the deeds the word would have been the idlest breath.

All that the law can do is to give a fair show to each man to develop the best there is in him, guarding him against injustice from others, and seeing that he works no injustice in return.

I believe in [the Monroe Doctrine] with all my heart.

I ask this audience—I ask the State of Illinois—I ask the entire Union to see to it, that there is no fault in the upbuilding and the maintaining of the American navy.

A great nation such as ours cannot play a small part in the world.

The man who seeks to inspire one set of Americans to hate another because of difference of creed, because of difference of locality, difference of occupation, or of wealth, is a curse to the republic.

Don't foul; don't flinch; and hit the line hard.

The word was mighty.

Good bye and good luck.

Of course if the law does not do that, it fails in its duty.

The American Navy was able in 1898 to add a new page to the honor of our republic because it had been built up during the preceding dozen years.

A man who fails to show such regard for his fellow stamps himself as being unfit to do his duty in American life.

We did it; and I hope the veterans of the great war feel that at least we showed the spirit they would want their sons and successors to show.

We can not too highly honor him.