I try to practice it myself, too.

The preservation of our forests depends chiefly upon the wisdom with which the practical lumberman, the expert in dealing with the lumber industry, works with the men who have studied the scientific side of forestry.

I am absolutely confident of the future, not only of this State, but of our entire country.

We don't know the cost, but we know that it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result.

Seriously, let me thank you and the members of the Arctic Brotherhood for their greeting and their gifts.

And think how absolutely the event has falsified the predictions of those men.

I am a pretty good Westerner; I am accustomed to seeing extraordinary growth, but what I have seen today has astonished me.

This government cannot and shall not become a government either of a plutocracy or of a mob.

Nothing could have pleased me more than to have received this gift from the men of the yard, and I appreciate it.

The republics of antiquity and of the middle ages all failed and almost invariably because a bitter factional war began among them.

I earnestly hope that the need for war will never come to our people.

There is no other body of water in the world which confers upon the commonwealth possessing it quite the natural advantages that Puget Sound confers upon this State; and there is no other State in the Union, and I include all of them…

I want to thank you and through you your fellow workmen for this token.

We need to have built upon it the kind of life which will give to the citizenship of the community the chance of developing itself along the loftiest lines.

Think of having a Sound with about fifteen hundred miles of possible dockage!

I believe in the pioneer, even when he is as well dressed as the pioneer I am addressing.

We do not know the cost, but we know it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result;

The spirit of class hatred is as base if it takes one shape as if it takes the other.