Welcome to the Daughters of the American Revolution

The President, before the Daughters of the American Revolution, April 14, 1913.
Madam President and Ladies of the Daughters of the American Revolution: Mine is a very pleasant function this afternoon. I do not know that it is necessary to bid any American audience welcome to Washington, since Washington is their own; but I am in form, at any rate, your host today. I am one of the few persons in the District of Columbia who can not ofought out and an independent nation was established in America.
We established an independent nation in order that men might enjoy a new kind of happiness and a new kind of dignity, that kind which a man has when he respects every other man’s and woman’s individuality as he respects his kparticularly those who think that the distinction will be drawn in their favor, but it is the only standard of gentility in America,–– that all men and woman are equally genteel who are equally devoted to the interests of mankind. This is our only patent of nobility. This is the particular standard of nobility which I understand associations like this to be organized to maintain.
It is, therefore, as if I welcomed you to the place where you belong,– that an organization that stands for the principles upon which the nation was based should be welcomed to the Capital of the United States.
THE END.