May I not, therefore, again thank you for the honor you have conferred upon me, and take the privilege of greeting you affectionately as my fellow citizens?

It is very delightful to feel my association with that government and with this city.

Our ties had been many and intimate before the war, and now they constitute a pledge of friendship and of permanent association of purpose which must delight both people.

The words which the mayor has uttered have touched me very much.

My sentiment, coming from the heart, is the sentiment of the American people.

Viva, l'Italia!

It is impossible at this distance that my voice should reach all of you, but I want you to know that I bring the greetings, and affectionate greetings, of the people of the United States to the people of Italy and the people of the great…

I feel almost as if it were the greeting of a people of whom I was indeed a fellow citizen.

Both on the streets of this interesting city and here you have made me feel at home.

The people of the United States were reluctant to take part in the war, not because they doubted the justice of the cause, but because it was the tradition of the American Republic to play no part in the politics of other continents.

There was a time when scholars, speaking in the beautiful language in which the last address was made, were the only international characters of the world.

It has been a very happy circumstance that America should be thus associated with Italy.

These things are greater than we are.

Trust is the very life and breadth of business; and suspicion, unjust national rivalry stands in the way of trade, stands in the way of industry.

It is the duty of the great universities of Italy and of the rest of the world to redeem science from this disgrace.

You can not trade with a man who does not trust you, and you will not trade with a man whom you do not trust.

That is the price of liberty.

I am sure that I am only speaking the sentiments that come from the heart of the American people when I say, Viva l'Italia.