It is a great pleasure to greet you to-day and be once again in this fertile and beautiful State of Illinois.
I believe in a big navy;
Our country is governed and under existing circumstances can only be governed, under the party system.
No business community can permanently succeed if the average member of it does not possess a certain quantity of high ideals;
If there is not a foundation of material prosperity for the State, as for the individual, you cannot expect anything but unhappiness; but wo...
I am particularly pleased to greet the Harvard Club of Chicago again under as pleasant circumstances as I have ever had the pleasure of gree...
This government is not and never shall be the government of a mob.
My pet theory has been that the very best thing that can happen to Harvard is to have the West win it
We cannot abandon our position on the Monroe Doctrine;
It is to them that we owe the fact that we have a country at all.
Hard words won't hurt us if we disregard them.