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…

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.

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

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

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…

In addition to honesty and decency you must have courage.

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.

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…

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.

When all things flourish it means that there is a good chance for things that we don't like to flourish also, just exactly as things that we do like.

We should have, under such circumstances, one sovereign to whom the big corporations should be responsible.

You cannot put a stop to or reverse the industrial tendencies of the age, but you can control and regulate them and see that they do no harm.

Probably never before in our history has the country been more prosperous than it is at this moment;