When I come here to California I am not in the West, I am west of the West.

Greatness only comes because the task to be done is great.

I am glad to see what has been done by your beet culture, fruit culture of every kind, irrigation, and tilling of the soil.

New methods must be devised for meeting the various problems that come up.

I wish you, the Forest Rangers, and also all the others, to protect the game and wild creatures.

Our aim must be to hand over to our children not an impoverished but an improved heritage.

If any one lies, if he has the habit of untruthfulness, you cannot deal with him, because there is nothing to depend on.

The poorest life that any one can live from the standpoint of pleasure is the life that has nothing but pleasure as its end and aim.

We have begun to take our position as a world power, a power situated on a continent fronting on two oceans, and we must have a navy to assert our position.

The business man or politician who does not tell the truth cheats; and for the cheat we should have no use in any walk of life.

I believe in you with all my heart and soul, and I believe that your future will be even greater than your past.

Today, for the first time in my life, I have seen the greatest of the oceans; I have come across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific; from the East to the West.

You can pardon most anything in a man who will tell the truth, because you know where that man is; you know what he means.

I think I was a pretty good American when I came here, but I feel that I am a better American now.

I wish to say what a great pleasure it has been to be here today.

As you have for your good fortune been placed down in this beautiful region with its wonderful climate, with its soil, with all the chance for development that it offers, so we have a right to expect a particularly high type of American citizenship from you.

Our aim must be by laws promotive of irrigation, by laws securing the wise use in perpetuity of the forests, by laws shaped in every way to promote the permanent interests of the country.

Greatness comes only to those who seek not how to avoid obstacles, but how to overcome them.