More than that we need strong minds, and finally we need what counts for more than body, for more than mind—character.

I am glad to be welcomed by all of you, but most of all by the men of the Grand Army, and after them by my own comrades of the National Guard.

I wish you well at all times and in every way, and I bid you good luck and good night.

Down at bottom we are the same people all through.

I have felt that the events of the last five or six years have been steadily hastening the day when the Pacific will loom in the world's commerce as the Atlantic now looms.

One thing that strikes me more than anything else as I go through the country.

I welcome you all.

I wish to congratulate the men and women of this city upon the children.

I think our citizens are more and more realizing that they wish to perpetuate the things that are of use and also the things that are of beauty.

I like your stock and I am glad it is not dying out.

You seem to be all right in quality and in quantity.

We need strong bodies.

I want to say what a pleasure it is to see you.

I am enjoying so much coming into California.

I am glad to see you, I believe in you, and I thank you.

I wish to say how glad I am to see you.

I earnestly wish that I could have many another community learn from you how you have handled your business.

Back of the law stands the man; just exactly as in battle it is the man behind the gun that counts most, even more than the gun.