The land-grant university system is being built on behalf of the people, who have invested in these public universities their hopes, their support, and their confidence.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

. . . peace is a thing which a person must be willing to fight for . . .

I want in all cases to do right.

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling.