Now, think what it means to have the President of the United States greeted as he has been today.

What we need is not genius, not brilliancy, but the ordinary commonplace virtues that every man or woman can have, if only he or she will.

Now, I hold that as a matter of public policy, whatever helps a part of our country helps the whole.

The same spirit that made them valiant in battle made them, when they came home from battle, take up the strings of their lives where they had dropped them when the appeal to arms came, and do their best in walks of peace.

Children of to-day are going to decide what our country shall be in the immediate future, and accordingly as they are brought up well or ill our country will go forward or backward in the years that are now open.

I will take advice about appointing men, but if I find them crooked I do not take any advice at all about removing them.

I am for a canal.

Think how fortunate we are as a people that, whereas, most great wars leave memories of rancor and bitterness, we now have the right of Americans all over this country to claim as part of the glory of all Americans all that was done alike…

In that regiment I had more men whose fathers had worn the gray than I had whose fathers had worn the blue; but they united in the generous rivalry to know no difference and in the emulation of seeing whether or not each could do all that…

The last time I came through your great and beautiful State I was with my regiment on the way to the Spanish War.

I cannot sufficiently express my appreciation of the magnificent greeting that you have given me to-day.

The man who is decent in his home relations, who is kind to those dependent upon him, who is a good husband, father, and son; is a good citizen.

What we need in the average man in his relation to the State is that he shall have the three qualities—courage, honesty, and common sense.

We cannot, any of us, afford to differ about the question of honesty in public life, decency and cleanliness in private life.

Uncle Sam has started to dig that canal, and it will be dug, and soon.

And I do want to say one thing in conclusion; if I have ever been able to accomplish anything at all in regard to peace or whatever else it may be, it has been done only to this end, to give fit expression to the thoughts and aspirations…

This republic is not, and never shall, be the government of a plutocracy.

I thank the gentlemen who have spoken tonight for their kind personal allusions.