I believe in you, and I want to see the future people like you.

It is a good thing to have a sound body; it is a better thing to have a sound mind.

The citizen who counts in the development of the state is the man or woman who makes this his or her home.

After all, that is the fundamental principle of our government.

I think I was a pretty good American when I came, but I am going away a better American.

I congratulate you upon the output from the mines, next the ranches, but most of all the children.

I am glad that they seem to be all right in quality and all right in quantity.

All that the law can do is to try to secure a fair deal, to try to give each man a chance to show the stuff that is in him; and if the stuff is not in him you cannot get it out of him because it is not there.

I believe in children.

This government is not and never shall be a government either of a plutocracy or of a mob.

Play hard while you play, and when you work don't play at all.

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

Best of all it is to have what counts for more than body and more than mind, character—character, into which a good many different elements enter, but these especially.

I doubt if there is any State which will profit more by the increase in the application of irrigation to our needs than is the case with the State of Idaho.

Much can be done by the aid of the government, by the aid of the State; but, after all, the fundamental thing in bringing success to any community is the quality of the average man, the average woman, in that community.

I do not have to tell you here that when you get irrigation fairly applied, rain is a poor substitute for it.

I do not believe that Congress has for many years passed any law relating to our internal development so wise as the irrigation law of a year ago.

I believe with all my heart in the Monroe Doctrine.