It is, of course, the merest truism to say that important though it is to develop factories, railroads, farms, commerce, the thing that counts is the development of citizenship.
I cannot say how I have appreciated being here in your beautiful State and your beautiful city.
The thing that has impressed me most is that I am speaking to Americans just as I speak in any other section of the country!
I believe in you. I believe in your future. I believe in our future.
I believe in the Monroe doctrine, and I believe in it not as an empty formula of words, but as something we are ready to make good by deeds.
We are living right in the middle of them now, only we are living under pleasanter auspices.
You have done this great work of building up a new community.
If he lies down you cannot carry him.
In saying good-by to you I want to say that it has been the greatest pleasure to see you.
I believe in doing all we can to avoid a quarrel, to avoid trouble.
Any man who claims that there can be liberty in spite of and against the law is claiming that anarchy is liberty.