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

Ours is a government of liberty by, through and under the law.

Let me greet those whom I know.

I do pay proper heed to them.

Do not misunderstand me.

If you doubt my words, do not believe them.

I cannot sufficiently congratulate you, Mr. President, upon what has been done here with this college.

I congratulate you, my fellow citizens, upon what you are doing here, in this great State, in bringing up your children worthily to continue the work that the pioneers began, and that you are helping carry to completion.

Think of having a Sound with about fifteen hundred miles of possible dockage!

I want to thank you and through you your fellow workmen for this token.

I earnestly hope that the need for war will never come to our people.

The preservation of our forests depends chiefly upon the wisdom with which the practical lumberman, the expert in dealing with the lumber industry, works with the men who have studied the scientific side of forestry.

I earnestly hope that Congress will speedily provide for a delegate from Alaska, so that the people of the Territory may have some recognized exponent whose duty it shall be to place their needs before the national legislature.

Nothing could have pleased me more than to have received this gift from the men of the yard, and I appreciate it.

Seriously, let me thank you and the members of the Arctic Brotherhood for their greeting and their gifts.

It is because of what they did that the President of the United States can travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Rio Grande to the forty-ninth parallel and be at home everywhere.

I try to practice it myself, too.

We don't know the cost, but we know that it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result.