It is a great pleasure to see you to-day.
I am impressed, as every man must be, with what our nation is to have within its borders a State such as this.
I congratulate you upon all the crops, but especially upon the children.
I should be ashamed of you if you were not, living in such a state as this.
The thing that has impressed me more than anything else in addressing the different audiences is that a good American is a good American in ...
I only wish it had been possible to make it eight times as much instead.
Constitution, laws,—they are good things, indispensable things, to have right, but you must have the men behind them or they will amount to ...
I want to see the average American citizen be in the future as he has been in the past, a decent man, doing no wrong.
Our government has so far escaped the twin dangers of the older republics, government by a plutocracy or government by a mob, either of them...
I thank you most heartily for your kindness in coming to greet me
You see, in '98 we had a difficulty from which you were wholly free in '61, because with us there was not enough war to go around.