"Well, it shows you how wrong people can be, when they prophesy against progress."
"This great and wonderful living that we have has featuring among other things the finest diet in the world--and the Hereford produces most of it."
"And so, with you, although there may not be a face in the throng that I recognize, I feel at home--and I hope you will allow me to do so."
"In any event, that industry has now reached the proportions that everything that affects it is of interest to the entire United States."
"In the first place, this is my section of the world."
"I am here because of my ultimate faith in education as the hope of the world--Christian religious education, man's free access to knowledge, his right to use it."
"This community and this College have a deeper significance than anything done or any words that can be spoken here this noon."
"Now I am sorry that I can't shout any louder, but I do want to say to every one of you: I am so honored that you came down to let me say 'Good morning, how are you.'"
"They were explorers and trappers and missionaries, traders, and farmers, and teachers, diggers of waterways and skilled operators of an industrial empire."
"A disaster of nature's making came to aggravate the trouble."
"And long may this library here stand and serve the needs of Defiance College."
"What value dollars, or acclaim, or position in a world where justice and opportunity and freedom are lost to us by force, by subversion, or by our own neglect?"