I ask that we help her as she struggles upward along the painful and difficult road of self- governing independence.

We are bound by every consideration of honor and expediency to pass commercial measures in the interest of her material well being.

The granting of reciprocity with Cuba is a proposition which stands entirely alone.

It is earnestly to be hoped that we will complete in the same spirit the record so well begun, and show in our dealings with Cuba that steady continuity of policy which it is essential for our nation to establish in foreign affairs if we…

In my judgment no American industry will be hurt, and many American industries will be benefited by the proposed action.

I ask for her certain special economic concessions in return; these economic concessions to benefit us as well as her.

In the case of Cuba, however, there are weighty reasons of morality and of national interest why the policy should be held to have a peculiar application.

West Pointers have risen to the first rank in all the occupations of civil life.

This institution has completed its first hundred years of life.

During that century no other educational institution in the land has contributed as many names as West Point to the honor roll of the nation's greatest citizens.

Your duty here at West Point has been to fit men to do well in war.

Here we care nothing for the boy's birthplace, nor his creed, nor his social standing.

It will be more difficult in the future than ever before to know your profession, and more essential also;

I welcome you here, and I am glad to have the chance of seeing you, and I wish to say a word of congratulation to you upon this Association.

You must be doctors and military men and able administrators.

Pay all possible heed to the scientific side of your work; perfect yourselves as scientific men able to work with the best and most delicate apparatus; and never for one moment forget—especially the higher officers among you—that in time…

I am glad to have the opportunity to bid welcome to the members of this Association and their friends to—day.

Upon your success depended all the future of the people on this continent, and much of the future of mankind as a whole.

Washington and Lincoln—the man who did most to found the Union, and the man who did most to preserve it—stand head and shoulders above all our other public men, and have by common consent won the right to this preeminence.

All honor to them; and shame, thrice shame, to us if we fail to uphold their hands!

Washington and Lincoln—the man who did most to found the Union, and the man who did most to preserve it—stand head and shoulders above all our other public men.

There were other crises in which to have gone wrong would have meant disaster; but this was the one crisis in which to have gone wrong would have meant not merely disaster but annihilation.

We believe that we can rapidly teach the people of the Philippine Islands not only how to enjoy but how to make good use of their freedom.

The warfare that has extended the boundaries of civilization at the expense of barbarism and savagery has been for centuries one of the most potent factors in the progress of humanity.

On July 4 we celebrate the birth of the nation; on this day, the 30th of May, we call to mind the deaths of those who died that the nation might live.