After all, when we are seeking peace, we are seeking nothing else than this, that men shall think the same thoughts.

But one permanent common possession has remained, and that is the validity of sound thinking.

We think the same thoughts. We entertain the same purposes. We have the same ideals; and this war has done this inestimable service: It has brought nations into close vital contact.

I am very much honored that this great city, playing so important a role in the life and in the industrial endeavor of Italy, should have conferred this high distinction upon me.

I could have believed myself in an American city.

We are not the real makers of war and of peace.

It is with a feeling of being in very familiar scenes that I come here to-day.

I am proud to be President of a Nation which contains so large an element of the Italian race.

As I passed through your streets I had this sensation, a sensation which I have often had in my own dear country at home—a sensation of friendship and close sympathetic contact.

Viva l'ltalia!

It will always be a matter of pride with me to remember this association.

You show your welcome in many delightful ways.

It is impossible for me to put into words the impressions I have received to-day.

On the other side of the water we have studied the life of Mazzini with almost as much pride as if we shared in the glory of his history.

I am very much touched by this evidence of your confidence,

I have never known such a greeting as the people of Milan have given me on the streets.

We are not masters of the fortunes of any nation, but that we are the servants of mankind.

It is delightful to me to feel that I am taking some small part in accomplishing the realization of the ideals to which his life and thought were devoted.