I have never tasted, not even at the wonderful banquet that I have attended in San Francisco, anything quite so good.

I am deeply touched by the beautiful gift you have given me.

I thank you for coming here and for giving me the privilege of joining with you today in these solemn ceremonies of commemoration.

I trust I came within them a fairly good American, and I leave them a better American.

Proud of your State? Of course you are proud of your State.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory…

For that reason I hail with especial pleasure the existence of such societies as those which seek to band together the young men and young women native born to this State.

When 1898 came and the war which President McKinley in all honesty and in all sincerity sought to avoid became inevitable, and was pressed upon him, he met it as he and you had met the crisis of 1861.

None of the men of my own generation or of this younger, stand as close to me as you of my regiment, as the men of the Spanish War do,

It is not too much to say that no man since Lincoln was as widely and as universally beloved in this country as was President McKinley.

I believe in children

The Y. M. C. A. stands for so much because it represents the work of men and women who to a generous enthusiasm for their fellows, to a lofty ideal of service for the Giver of good, and for all mankind, join the power to realize that ideal…

There are no other trees anywhere like the giant Sequoias; nowhere else is there a more beautiful forest than that which clothes the western slope of the Sierra.

I want you to play hard without encroaching on your work.

I do not want you to turn out prigs; I do not want you to turn out the self-conscious.

The more efficient a man is the more dangerous he is if that efficiency is not guided by the proper type of spirit, by the proper sense of moral responsibility.

I have enjoyed being in California for the last week, and it has been the greatest possible pleasure.

No law that the wit of man has ever devised ever has made or ever will make the fool wise, the coward brave, or the weakling strong.