There is no body of men and women in all our country to whom so much is owing as to those who are training the next generation.

To take advantage of the greatest opportunities you must have the men.

It does not make any difference what work the man is doing if he does it well.

I do not care whether a man is a banker or a bricklayer; if he is a good banker or a good bricklayer he is a good citizen.

I believe not in brilliancy, not in genius, I believe in the ordinary, humdrum, work-a-day virtues that make a man a good man in his family, a good neighbor, a good man to deal with in business, a good man to deal with in the State.

I believe in your future, because I believe in you—not only in the climate and the soil.

If the man is a slack, shiftless creature I wish we could get rid of him.

I have enjoyed being here.

Now I feel that we did not give it half enough.

Our duty is to lead our lives in a spirit of decency, of courage and of common sense, that will make us fit to be citizens of this great republic.

Much though I have been interested in the wonderful physical beauty of this wonderful State, I have been infinitely more interested in its citizenship.

I have not got much to say to you, because since I have been in California I have felt a good deal more like learning than teaching.

A naval war is two-thirds settled in advance, at least two-thirds, because it is mainly settled by the preparation which has gone on for years preceding its outbreak.

No one can too strongly insist upon the elementary fact that you cannot build the superstructure of public virtue save on private virtue.

The one indispensable thing for us to keep is a high standard of character for the average American citizen.

it is even a greater thing to be what all of us are—Americans.

It is absolutely essential, if we are to have the proper standard of public life, that promise shall be square with performance.

There is the same sound reason for distrusting the man who promises too much in public that there is for distrusting the man who promises too much in private business.