You can realize, therefore, sir, with what emotion I receive the honor which you have so generously conferred upon me of the citizenship of this great city.
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...
It is delightful to feel how the voice of one people speaks to another through the mouth of men who have by some gift of God been lifted abo...
The overwhelming welcome, the spontaneous welcome, the welcome that so evidently came from the heart, has been profoundly moving to me, sir.
I am not thinking of particular settlements so much as I am of the general settlement.
I take off hat to the great people of Italy and tell them that my admiration is merged into friendship and affection.
YOU make my heart very warm indeed by a welcome like this.
We have been students of your history, sir.
I want to reecho the hope that we may all work together for a great peace as distinguished from a mean peace.
It is not our privilege to follow special interests, but that it is our manifest duty to study only the general interest.
I would be ashamed if I did not feel the pulse of this great people beating in these affairs.