Senator Root says this one triumph alone saves twenty million dollars a year to the business interests of the United States! I call that true patriotism.
Ernest
[with a nod of assent to Lucy]
Lemon.
Theodore
[with sincerity]
General Wood says it saves more human lives a year than were lost in the whole Spanish War! I call it service.
Judge
Colonel Goethals says the Panama Canal could not have been built if it hadn't been for you self-sacrificing scientists. Not only that, but you have abolished forever from the United States a scourge which for more than a century had through periodic outbreaks spread terror, devastation, and death.
[A pause.