A financial system of assured honesty is the first essential.

An honest currency is the strongest symbol and expression of honest business life.

I wish to lay particular stress on the need of preparedness.

It should be our object in every way to encourage the National Guards of the States and to build them up to the highest point of efficiency.

A good deed done by any American is put down to the credit of all Americans, and that, therefore, conversely, no act of wrongdoing can be performed by one of our number without the evil effects being felt to a greater or less degree by all of us.

Cincinnati is prospering marvelously, and under the theory of our National Government, which was invoked when this country became a part of the nation, the nation must continue to do its part in helping secure the prosperity of Cincinnati and of the entire Ohio Valley.

We cannot get rid of them even if it were not undesirable to get rid of them;

I am glad indeed to have the chance to come out to this festival, this industrial exposition.

our instant duty is to try to accommodate our social, economic and legislative life to them.

Our Government is a practical exemplification of the great principle of each for all and all for each.

We must have the manly virtue deeply imbedded as part of our national characteristics if we are to do our work aright in peace or in war.

We need good laws, we need honest and upright administration of the laws, but we need as the fundamental prerequisite for good government a high average standard of good citizenship in the men who make the laws and stand back of them.

In addition to honesty and decency you must have courage.

Wherever a deed is done by an American which reflects credit upon our country, each of us can walk with his head a little higher in consequence; and wherever anything happens through the fault of any of us that is discreditable it discredits all of us more or less.

I needed no pressing to accept the invitation.

You have to have the stuff in you.

We can succeed permanently only upon the basis of standing shoulder to shoulder, working in association, by organization, each working for all.

In raising my own regiment, I found that there was no group of our citizens from whom better men could be drawn.