I do not think that the money we have spent even estimating it at the highest sum, has been wasted in any way.

I like to think, whether it be true or not, that we have in this generation reached a somewhat different view of the responsibilities of a civilized nation from that which prevailed in the last generation, especially as applied to our…

I feel a certain sort of pride in the fact that I was the only Republican candidate for President who ever ventured in a canvass for the Presidency to address a Virginia audience.

I am glad to be here in Virginia.

I am strongly in favor of a postal savings bank.

I am going to stop and relieve you.

I do not know whether you feel glad about it, but I do.

I hesitate to occupy your time in discussing an old method of transporting goods when you have before your eyes the newest one invented.

The one thought that strikes a judicial mind going about this country is the homogeneity of the American people.

It is a great pleasure to be here.

Nothing could modify my ambitions, nothing restrain the haste with which I would go back to the Capitol City except the pleasure of meeting my old friends in Augusta.

I expect to recommend to Congress that there be a union of all the instrumentalities of the Government for the organization of means of health and the study of disease.

Unless we can have uniform State operation, uniform State legislation with reference to the preservation of our forests, the equalization of water which falls from the clouds, and the preservation of our soil from being washed out to sea…

I feel always like claiming what Judge Black explained with his constitutional law, that when I was elected President of the United States I was elected from Georgia.

That is one promise of the Administration that I have redeemed.

I am not inspired to say much to-day, because I feel so much more than I can say.

And now, my friends, I am going to stop.

I don't claim any credit for it, because a man who would not come to Columbia when he could, and enjoy such a festivity and welcome as this, does not understand a good thing when he sees it.