I believe in play and I believe in work.

It has always seemed to me that we should profit by the lessons that they taught, not merely in war, but in peace.

Play hard while you play, and when you work do not play at all.

The future of the State depends not upon what is material, for that you can produce if you have the heart, the hand, and the head to do it; it depends upon the quality of heart, hand and head in the average American.

Instead of the life of ease I preach to all worthy to be called men, the life of work, the life of endeavor.

It is particularly a pleasure to be in a State already great, and yet with an infinitely greater future before it.

All kinds of honorable work entitle those following them to honor.

If a man does his duty he is a good citizen and we should be proud of him.

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

We do not believe here in this republic in the men who seek only the life of ease, the life of absence of effort.

I have been astonished and delighted with your extraordinary success in so many different types of industries—mining, agriculture of so many kinds, manufacturing, your wonderful commerce.

I have enjoyed to the full my visit to California.

I want to say a word to the teachers.

But pleased though I am to see your abounding material prosperity, the products of your soil, the thing I am most pleased with is you yourselves, the men and women.

We stand on the threshold of a new century.

You see, in '98 we had a difficulty from which you were wholly free in '61, because with us there was not enough war to go around.

I ask that we keep in mind not only our own interests, but the interests of our children.

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