If we do not, then our children when they look back for cause of pride in our history will have to skip our generation.

It is a good thing to cheer her, but it is a better thing to see that we keep on building other ships like her, but even better.

The essential thing in any State is the character of the average man or woman.

We cannot be dragged up, we have got to push ourselves up.

The thing that has impressed me more than anything else in addressing the different audiences is that a good American is a good American in whatever part of this country he lives.

It is a great pleasure to see you to-day.

Most of all I have enjoyed seeing you, the men and women of California.

I envy the man who has a work worth doing and does it well;

I am impressed, as every man must be, with what our nation is to have within its borders a State such as this.

Our government is based upon the rule of a self-respecting majority.

Success will come in the long run to the man or the nation possessing the attributes that have conquered success from the days when we first have written records of the nations of mankind.

I hardly think that you yourselves can realize what a wonderful State it is, a State as large and as diversified as many an Old World empire.

There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

I congratulate you upon all the crops, but especially upon the children.

I am glad to meet all of you.

This State is in boundaries and resources greater than many an Old World empire; and think what it is to be a citizen of a Union in which a commonwealth like this is a State.

If he is worth his salt he will work.

I only wish it had been possible to make it eight times as much instead.