If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth.

Men may die, but the fabric of our free institutions remains unshaken.

The countries of the American continent and the adjacent islands are for the United States the natural marts of supply and demand.

The health of the people is of supreme importance. All measures looking to their protection against the spread of contagious diseases and to the increase of our sanitary knowledge for such purposes deserve attention of Congress.

The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it.

It is provided by the Constitution that the President shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the state of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient.

No higher proof exists of the strength of popular government than, though the chosen of the people be struck down, his constitutional successor is peacefully installed without shock or strain.