We need the guidance of the people; we need the constant expression of the purposes and ideals of the people.

Columbus will always be remembered and honored not only here in the land of his birth, but throughout the world.

I want to say how deeply I appreciate the honor you conferred upon me in permitting me to become a member of this great Academy.

Justice and right and big things, and in these circumstances they are big with difficulty.

I would be ashamed if I did not feel the pulse of this great people beating in these affairs.

It is America's pleasure and America's pride that she has been able to show that it was a service to mankind.

Columbus did do a service to mankind in discovering America.

It is very delightful to draw apart for a little while into this quiet place and feel again that familiar touch of thought and of knowledge.

I have listened, sir, with the profoundest appreciation to the beautiful address which you have been kind enough to deliver.

If we do not rise to the expectation of the world and satisfy the souls of great peoples like the people of Italy, we shall have the most unenviable distinction in history.

I have been very much touched by the generous terms of the address which you have just read.

I have rejoiced personally in the partnership of the Italian and the American people.

we are friends of these people and it is our duty as their friends to see to it that some kind of protection is thrown around them.

If Germany had waited a single generation, she would have had a commercial empire of the world.

Many political changes have centered about Rome, from the time when from a little city she grew to be the mistress of an empire.

We have seemed no doubt indifferent at times, to look on from a great distance, but our hearts have never been far away.

We stand at the opening of a new age.

I am honored, sir, to be taken into this ancient comradeship of the citizenship of Rome.