And I thank you.

The American people, through me, extend their thanks to you.

We prize this fresh proof of the friendship of the French people.

I beg to express my acknowledgments to the embassy that has come here.

We appreciate to the full all that is implied in this embassy.

Let me, on behalf of all the people of the United States, and with the certain conviction that I have expressed their sentiments, drink to the health of President Loubet and to the continued prosperity of the mighty nation of which he is…

We appreciate what France has done in sending to our shores on this occasion such a magnificent warship.

It has been a source of valued information to be permitted to see and inspect this splendid French vessel.

I thank you personally for the courtesy which has been extended to me.

I am sure I speak for the American navy when I say it has been a source of pleasure that such a splendid specimen of French naval architecture as the Gaulois has visited our shores on such a friendly mission.

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Medicine Bow Forest Reserve.

It is a pleasure to be here this afternoon to accept in the name of the nation the monument put up by your society to the memory of those who fell in the war with Spain;

It is a pleasure to be here this afternoon to accept in the name of the nation the monument put up by your society to the memory of those who fell in the war with Spain.

It is not merely a great thing, but an indispensable thing that the nation's citizens should be ready and willing to die for it in time of need;

But in addition to dying for the nation you must be willing and anxious to live for the nation, or the nation will be badly off.

We shall succeed or fail in making this Republic what it should be made—I will go a little further than that—what it shall and must be made, accordingly as we do or do not seriously and resolutely set ourselves to do the tasks of…

It is not merely a great thing, but an indispensable thing that the nation' s citizens should be ready and willing to die for it in time of need; and the presence of no other quality could atone for the lack of such readiness to lay down…

I think that one lesson every one who was capable of learning any thing learned from his experience in that war was the old, old lesson that we need to apply in peace quite as much—the lesson that the man who does not care to do any act…