I thank you with all my heart.

You can realize, therefore, sir, with what emotion I receive the honor which you have so generously conferred upon me of the citizenship of this great city.

I am not thinking of particular settlements so much as I am of the general settlement.

We have been students of your history, sir.

I am very much moved, sir, to be in the presence of this monument.

It has brought tears to my eyes, because I know that it comes from their hearts.

It is not our privilege to follow special interests, but that it is our manifest duty to study only the general interest.

I feel that I am privileged to come into contact with you.

It is impossible for me to put into words the impressions I have received to-day.

I am very grateful to you for your kindness.

May I not thank you, sir, for myself and for Mrs. Wilson and for my daughter, for the very gracious welcome you have accorded us and again express my pride and pleasure?

Force can always be conquered, but the spirit of liberty never can be.

I am aware, sir, that those of us who are now charged with the very great and serious responsibility of concluding the peace must think and act and confer in the presence of this opinion.

The thing that makes parties workable and tolerable is that all parties love their own country and therefore participate in the general sentiments of that country.

You can not trade with people whom you do not trust, and who do not trust you.

Viva Italia!

We can not merely sign a treaty of peace and go home with clear consciences.

Our men have come with the spirit of the crusades against that which was wrong and in order to see to it, if it is possible, that such terrible things never happen again.