I could not but think that if the great and noble men whom this institution necessarily recalls, the founders of our country, were here today, as, thanks be to God, they may be invisibly to us, what joy would fill their hearts as they saw the evidence of love of country and of respect for its institutions marked by the presence of the President of the United States and by the invitation, not to me personally but to the Chief Justice, and also by these ceremonies.

I could see them here Washington and those who founded our institutions, and hear them say: "Behold, we have not lived in vain, the love of the country which we founded remains, the institutions of freedom, which we established are not passing off the face of the Earth, but safe in the hearts of its people. The mighty nation which stretches from ocean to ocean will preserve and transmit them to those who are to come as a priceless blessing for the maintenance of the freedom and the liberty of mankind."
From the speech of the Chief Justice of the United States delivered on the
steps of Nassau Hall at the inauguration of President Hibben on May 11, 1912.

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