I think there is but one class of people who deserve as well as the soldiers and those are they who teach the children of the present how to be the masters of our country in the future.

It is a great thing to have had forefathers who did their work well in the world.

Vermont has always played far more than her part to which she was by population entitled in the affairs of the country.

Gentlemen and ladies, it has always been a pleasure to me to come here to your city.

I think that this is a State that favors longevity.

For that I do not pity them. I admire them.

It is not enough, gentlemen, to mean well either in battle or in civil life; you not only had to mean well, you had to do well, and it is the same thing in civil life.

Each man of you who looks back on his life will feel proud to hand to his children, not the memory of the days of ease, but the days that were pretty hard, that meant hard work, but wherein he did something.

I pity no man because he has got to work.

It is the man behind the gun in war, and it is the man behind the plough in peace.

I despise the man who will not work.

You have got to have— you of the Civil War, you fought with widely different weapons and widely different tactics from the men who were with Ethan Allen.

Both must be put down.

You have manufactories in your town—shoes, linen, underwear.

You can frame laws and have a good constitution, and after all has been done that you can do in that way you have accomplished simply the creating of conditions which render it possible to have good citizenship.

You have hay and stock farms outside, and you, therefore, have in this community the farmer and the towns man, the employer and the wage worker.

It has been to me a very great pleasure to visit your State, and above all, to meet your people.

You can give a child every advantage, give him books and the teachers, but he has got to learn, he has got to do that himself.