"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."
"I would be without that which makes a man if I did not appreciate to the full the kindly words of your distinguished Governor, and if I did not congratulate the State of New York on having a Governor ..."
"The truth is that the gift of eloquence and speech which Governor Hughes has needs no practice, but I have to have a little."
"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."
"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 ..."
"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."
"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."
"The truth is, in those days such a thing as freedom of religion was not understood."
"Men are not fit to govern themselves until they have sense and self-restraint enough to know what is their interest and to give every other man all that is coming to him according to right and justice..."