If a man does his duty he is a good citizen and we should be proud of him.

The next generation determines the fate of this country.

But pleased though I am to see your abounding material prosperity, the products of your soil, the thing I am most pleased with is you yourselves, the men and women.

It has always seemed to me that we should profit by the lessons that they taught, not merely in war, but in peace.

I have been astonished and delighted with your extraordinary success in so many different types of industries—mining, agriculture of so many kinds, manufacturing, your wonderful commerce.

You need various qualities to make a State great, a nation great.

I ask that we keep in mind not only our own interests, but the interests of our children.

Lying out at night under those giant Sequoias was lying in a temple built by no hand of man, a temple grander than any human architect could by any possibility build.

I do not care how moral a man is, if his morality is only good while he sits at home in his own parlor, you can do nothing with him.

You see, in '98 we had a difficulty from which you were wholly free in '61, because with us there was not enough war to go around.

I thank you most heartily for your kindness in coming to greet me

I am proud of you, proud to be your fellow-citizen.

I believe in play and I believe in work.

We stand on the threshold of a new century.

I want to say a word to the teachers.

All kinds of honorable work entitle those following them to honor.

We do not believe here in this republic in the men who seek only the life of ease, the life of absence of effort.

One lesson of that brotherhood is the self-respect that respects others.