Let each man strive to excel his fellows only by rendering substantial service to the community in which he lives.

You can't be as much inspired by anything I may say, as I have been inspired by what I have seen here.

People can govern themselves only by practicing the virtues of moderation, self-restraint, of understanding that the simple homely virtues of honesty, courage and common sense are essential to the full development of citizenship in a free…

As I said once before today, I like your stock and am glad it is not dying out.

Finally, and in closing, my friends, let me draw one more lesson from the Civil War; from the experience of the men of the Civil War.

Viewed from any angle, ignorance is the costliest crop that can be raised in any part of this Union.

the successful performance of political duty depends absolutely upon the successful performance of domestic, of social duty.

I wish to say that I am stirred most deeply by this magnificent reception from what Mr. Rhodes has so well called the Magic City of the South.

No American worthy of the name would fail to be stirred with patriotism as he comes into your magnificent State, into this magnificent city.

It is not the President or the Senators or the Congressmen, or even the Governors, who make up our nation, who make the greatness of our nation.

I believe in children. I like your stock, and I want to see it kept up.

Now, think what it means to have the President of the United States greeted as he has been today.

We must remember that we leave this country in the hands of the children of today.

It is in the interest, and for the protection, of the white man to see that the negro is educated.

There is no other people of which history tells which, having passed through such a war as we have passed through, now, after forty years, finds not only that the flag which had been rent asunder is once again whole, without a seam, but…

The destiny of the race is chiefly in its own hands, and must be worked out patiently and persistently along these lines.

It is character that determines the nation's progress in the long run.

I would not call myself a good American if I did not.

The man or the woman who counts in life is the man or the woman who does not flinch from a task, but who does the task, who overcomes the obstacle.

The hope of advancement for the colored man in the South lies in his steady, commonsense effort to improve his moral and material condition.

I will be through now in just two minutes more.

Alabama has made a wonderful record.

I believe in the future of America, because I believe that the average American man, and the average American woman, is sound at heart.

The one thing this nation cannot afford to neglect is the education of the nation of the future.

The one all-essential thing in America, the thing that underlies everything else, is to have the average American a good man or a good woman; and if there is any one thing that I respect more than a good man, it is a good woman.