It is just so in civil life, and the man has to be a decent man, a square man, a man who acts square by his neighbors, fairly by the State, or he cannot amount to anything;

I should be ashamed of you if you were not

This is to be my last day in California, and I leave the State with the liveliest appreciation of the courtesy with which I have been received.

I pity no man because he has to work.

I understand now.

It is the fact of doing the work well that counts, not the kind of work, as long as that work is honorable.

Our government has so far escaped the twin dangers of the older republics, government by a plutocracy or government by a mob, either of them absolutely alien to American ideals.

I should be ashamed of you if you were not, living in such a state as this.

There is no patent recipe for making a good citizen any more than there is any patent recipe for making a successful man.

Constitution, laws,—they are good things, indispensable things, to have right, but you must have the men behind them or they will amount to but little.

I want to see the average American citizen be in the future as he has been in the past, a decent man, doing no wrong.

You practice what I preach, and I hope I do myself, too.

Instead of the life of ease I preach to all worthy to be called men, the life of work, the life of endeavor.

It is particularly a pleasure to be in a State already great, and yet with an infinitely greater future before it.

The future of the State depends not upon what is material, for that you can produce if you have the heart, the hand, and the head to do it; it depends upon the quality of heart, hand and head in the average American.

Play hard while you play, and when you work do not play at all.

I believe in you with all my heart and I believe that the century that is opening contains the promise of the greatest achievement for this nation that any nation has ever enjoyed since the dim days when history dawned.

I have enjoyed to the full my visit to California.