I believe in children

I most earnestly hope that this work will ever be of a peaceful character

I want to thank you and my comrades of the Spanish-American War from my heart;

I guess you do not wonder that I am fond of the men of my regiment.

I should be sorry indeed if there were not societies like those of the Native Sons and Native Daughters in this State to keep alive the sense of historic continuity with the State's mighty past.

It speaks well for our nation that men and women should desire during their lives to devote the fortunes which they were able to acquire or to inherit because of our system of government, to objects so entirely worthy and so entirely admirable as the foundation of a great seat of learning such as this.

There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions in mankind.

I want you to play hard without encroaching on your work.

I have enjoyed being in California for the last week, and it has been the greatest possible pleasure.

There are no other trees anywhere like the giant Sequoias; nowhere else is there a more beautiful forest than that which clothes the western slope of the Sierra.

There is no royal road to good government.

There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship.

And you, men and women, who have had the advantages of a college training are not to be excused if you fail to do not as well as, but if you fail to do more than the average man outside who has not had your advantages.

I am glad to have the chance of acknowledging my obligations to him, and I am also glad that when I ask you to strive toward productive scholarship, toward productive citizenship, I can use the president of the university as an example.

It is a fine thing to have before a body of students men who by their practice have rendered it unnecessary that they should preach

There is but one real way in which any man can be helped, and that is by teaching him to help himself.

With decency there must go the power practically to apply it in life, practically to work it out, and to work it out for the benefit of others as well as for one's self.

It will be a bad day for this country and a worse day for all educative institutions in this country if ever such a call is made, and the men of college training do not feel it peculiarly incumbent upon them to respond.