The truth is that the gift of eloquence and speech which Governor Hughes has needs no practice, but I have to have a little.

There is something in the atmosphere that suggests a flying machine, as if you were all so full of joy that that element in you could raise you up, and that is the way you ought to be.

I think we are reaching a point in this country where we are very much more tolerant of everything and everybody than in the past.

One is almost carried off his feet before such an audience.

The combination of work and pleasure, the cultivation of health on the one hand and of intellect on the other, and of religious faith above all under such beautiful surroundings is calculated to make every one enthusiastic, and I share…

I thank you, my dear friends, I thank the reverend fathers and His Eminence the Cardinal, for the cordial reception that you have given to the civil head of New York and to the civil head of the Nation.

I am not a Catholic, but I have had in the last ten years a great deal to do with the Catholic Church.

They knew the responsibilities that they owed to the world and that they owed to the people for whom they were making the declaration.

We have passed beyond that and out of the friction.

We speak with great satisfaction of the fact that our ancestors—and I claim New England ancestry—came to this country in order to establish freedom of religion.

The truth is, in those days such a thing as freedom of religion was not understood.

Well may it be called the Rose of New England.