I doubt if there is any State which will profit more by the increase in the application of irrigation to our needs than is the case with the State of Idaho.

The best citizen is the man who is a good husband, a good father; the woman who is a good wife, a good mother.

This is not, and never shall be, a government of a plutocracy; it is not, and never shall be, a government by a mob.

And Congress, the National Legislature, has not of recent years put upon the statute books any law as wise, as beneficent as the National irrigation act of a year ago.

You need first of all to distribute the water in space through the irrigating ditches, and then to preserve it in time by storage in reservoirs.

The most unsafe adviser to follow is the man who would advise us to do wrong in order that we may benefit by it.

We are going to see great manufacturing centers here in Montana taking advantage of the power of your waters.

The law is no respecter of persons.

We are bound in honor to try to remedy injustice; but if we are wise we will seek to remedy it in practical ways.

While all people are foolish if they violate or rail against the law—wicked as well as foolish, but all foolish—yet the most foolish man in this Republic is the man of wealth who complains because the law is administered with impartial…

No man is above it and no man is below it.

I ask that we see to it in our country that the line of division in the deeper matters of our citizenship be drawn, never between section and section, never between creed and creed, never, thrice never, between class and class.

This is not and never shall be a government either of a plutocracy or of a mob.

Great good has come from the development of our railroad system.

Ours is a government of liberty by, through and under the law.

The crime of cunning, the crime of greed, the crime of violence, are all equally crimes, and against them all alike the law must set its face.

We have the right to ask every decent American citizen to rally to the support of the law if it is ever broken against the interest of the rich man.

His folly is greater than the folly of any other man who so complains; for he lives and moves and has his being because the law does in fact protect him and his property.