I am strongly in favor of a postal savings bank.

I feel a certain sort of pride in the fact that I was the only Republican candidate for President who ever ventured in a canvass for the Presidency to address a Virginia audience.

I do not know whether you feel glad about it, but I do.

I am glad to be here in Virginia.

I expect to recommend to Congress that there be a union of all the instrumentalities of the Government for the organization of means of health and the study of disease.

I hesitate to occupy your time in discussing an old method of transporting goods when you have before your eyes the newest one invented.

Unless we can have uniform State operation, uniform State legislation with reference to the preservation of our forests, the equalization of water which falls from the clouds, and the preservation of our soil from being washed out to sea…

It is a great pleasure to be here.

Nothing could modify my ambitions, nothing restrain the haste with which I would go back to the Capitol City except the pleasure of meeting my old friends in Augusta.

I feel always like claiming what Judge Black explained with his constitutional law, that when I was elected President of the United States I was elected from Georgia.

The one thought that strikes a judicial mind going about this country is the homogeneity of the American people.

It is the first State in which I have been tendered a welcome within the capitol walls of the State, and I take it as an expression on your part of a desire to show that it is the State and the people of the State that welcome me.

I don't claim any credit for it, because a man who would not come to Columbia when he could, and enjoy such a festivity and welcome as this, does not understand a good thing when he sees it.

And now, my friends, I am going to stop.

That is one promise of the Administration that I have redeemed.

But the next time I come to South Carolina I expect to dine with the ladies and the gentlemen.

Now we are letting them in to see the animals eat.

I am not inspired to say much to-day, because I feel so much more than I can say.

I count it a great privilege to come here, representing the Nation that you love so well.

I say good-bye now. I hope to come again as soon as I can

There are certain advantages in being the only speaker and there are certain disadvantages.

I thank you for your kindly welcome.

I am honored to-night by the presence of the Governor of your State and by that of your two Senators with all of whom, I am glad to say, I am on the most friendly personal terms.

I think generally that if they see the man and come into a sort of personal touch, they are more sympathetic with him in his difficulties.

We have not opened all the avenues to livelihood which they are quite as well able to fill, and in certain respects better able to fill, than we are.