We have a right to demand that they set an example to their less fortunate brethren by paying scrupulous heed not only to the letter, but to the spirit of the laws.
I want to congratulate you, as I always do when I come here, upon the delightful physical surroundings of the union.
I feel that this union is one of the most important elements in shaping a right Harvard life.
We need men with these ideals in public life, and we need them just as much in business and in such a profession as the law.
It is far more important that they should conduct their business affairs decently than that they should spend the surplus of their fortunes ...
But I am for one thing before peace—I am for righteousness first.
It is a bad thing for any college man to grow to regard sport as the serious business of life.
I admire a great many of Massachusetts' products, but I think the product of the children is the best.
Keep on building and maintaining at the highest point of efficiency the United States navy, or quit trying to be a big nation.
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...
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 f...