I am, as you gentlemen probably know, exceedingly interested in the question of forestry preservation.

I believe in you, men and women of California, men and women of America, of the United States, because I feel that you are not only sound in body and sound in mind, but that which counts for more than body, more than mind—character.

The qualities needed to solve aright the problems of today are the same qualities that were needed by the men who in 1861 found themselves confronted with the question of whether or not this country should remain all united and free, or divided and partially unfree.

I am not surprised at it, because the last two days in California have taught me not to be surprised at anything.

More and more our people have waked to the fact that farming is not only a practical, but a scientific pursuit.

Sometimes people grow so familiar with their surroundings that they fail entirely to appreciate them.

The first thing that the individual man has to do is to pull his own weight, to earn his own way, not to be a drag on the community.

Each one of us must remember that any one may and will at times slip.

In the war you had to have patriotism, but there was but little to be made of the man who was patriotic but who had a tendency to run away.

Every college should strive to bring to development among the students the capacity to do good original work.

Ours is a government of equal rights under the law, guaranteeing those rights to each man so long as he in his turn refrains from wronging his brother.

I believe in you. I believe in your future. I believe in our future.

You have done this great work of building up a new community.

In any regiment the man who has no loyalty to his fellows, no spirit of devotion to the flag, no desire to see the regiment stand high, to do his duty and see his fellows rise with him, that man, no matter how brave, or how able, is a curse to the regiment.

Character has two sides.

The thing that has impressed me most is that I am speaking to Americans just as I speak in any other section of the country!

We are living right in the middle of them now, only we are living under pleasanter auspices.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say that important though it is to develop factories, railroads, farms, commerce, the thing that counts is the development of citizenship.