I can not say how much it means to me to be greeted as I have been greeted by the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray in this trip through the Southland.

I thank you not only for the words which accompany it, but for the spirit which lies behind the words.

Now we know but one rivalry—the rivalry to see which of us can do the most for the flag of a united country.

I want, on behalf of this nation, the peace that comes not to the coward, who cringes for it, but the peace of the just man armed, who asks it as a right.

As I said at Richmond, second only to the man who wore the blue, I hold the man who wore the gray.

When a man is President, when he holds any public office, questions of merely partisan character sink into absolute insignificance compared with the mighty questions upon which all good Americans are united.

In my judgment it should do not only more, but very much more.

Now I am emboldened by your generous kindness and confidence to say that it has been indeed a pleasure to deal with Louisiana's representatives in the Senate and the lower House of Congress.

But if he is rich and crooked hold it against him; if not rich but is crooked, then hold it against him.

The poor man who is true to you is the ultimately righteous, and the man who will steal for you will steal from you.

by their fruits shall ye know them

we have a right to expect a peculiar quantity and quality of the service to the public

The average American is a pretty good fellow.

Treat each man according to his worth as a man.

The country will be all right if the average man is decent and clean in his home life.

I have a great respect for a good man, and the only one I have greater respect for is a good woman.

We urgently need in this country methods for expediting punishment, methods for doing away with delay, methods which will secure to the public an even chance with the criminal—I do not ask any more.

I am just a trifle more intent on punishing the Republican offender than the Democrat, because he is my own scoundrel.