If we do not, then our children when they look back for cause of pride in our history will have to skip our generation.

I ask that we, the inheritors of the glory of the men who founded the Republic under Washington, of the men who saved it under Lincoln, in our turn play our part and do aright the lesser tasks of today.

I should be ashamed of you if you were not

I am impressed, as every man must be, with what our nation is to have within its borders a State such as this.

Most of all I have enjoyed seeing you, the men and women of California.

If he is worth his salt he will work.

I am glad to meet all of you.

This State is in boundaries and resources greater than many an Old World empire; and think what it is to be a citizen of a Union in which a commonwealth like this is a State.

I should be ashamed of you if you were not, living in such a state as this.

Constitution, laws,—they are good things, indispensable things, to have right, but you must have the men behind them or they will amount to but little.

I envy the man who has a work worth doing and does it well;

I understand now.

I want to see the average American citizen be in the future as he has been in the past, a decent man, doing no wrong.

The essential thing in any State is the character of the average man or woman.

There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

I congratulate you upon all the crops, but especially upon the children.

I hardly think that you yourselves can realize what a wonderful State it is, a State as large and as diversified as many an Old World empire.

Success will come in the long run to the man or the nation possessing the attributes that have conquered success from the days when we first have written records of the nations of mankind.