I pity no man because he has to work.

There is no patent recipe for making a good citizen any more than there is any patent recipe for making a successful man.

Our government has so far escaped the twin dangers of the older republics, government by a plutocracy or government by a mob, either of them absolutely alien to American ideals.

It is just so in civil life, and the man has to be a decent man, a square man, a man who acts square by his neighbors, fairly by the State, or he cannot amount to anything;

I only wish it had been possible to make it eight times as much instead.

This is to be my last day in California, and I leave the State with the liveliest appreciation of the courtesy with which I have been received.

We cannot be dragged up, we have got to push ourselves up.

It is a great pleasure to see you to-day.

Our government is based upon the rule of a self-respecting majority.

The thing that has impressed me more than anything else in addressing the different audiences is that a good American is a good American in whatever part of this country he lives.

It is the fact of doing the work well that counts, not the kind of work, as long as that work is honorable.

The next generation determines the fate of this country.

I want to say a word to the teachers.

You need various qualities to make a State great, a nation great.

I am proud of you, proud to be your fellow-citizen.

I thank you most heartily for your kindness in coming to greet me

There is no body of men and women in all our country to whom so much is owing as to those who are training the next generation.

You practice what I preach, and I hope I do myself, too.