Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities.

Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere.

I have often thought that unselfishness combined in one word more of the teachings of the Bible than any other in the language.

Rarely has any people enjoyed greater prosperity than we are now enjoying. For this we render heartfelt and solemn thanks to the Giver of Good; and we seek to praise Him -not by words only -but by deeds, by the way in which we do our duty to ourselves and to our fellow men.

In this country we have no place for hyphenated Americans.

The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.