Lying out at night under those giant Sequoias was lying in a temple built by no hand of man, a temple grander than any human architect could by any possibility build.

It does not make any difference what work the man is doing if he does it well.

I believe in your future, because I believe in you—not only in the climate and the soil.

I do not care whether a man is a banker or a bricklayer; if he is a good banker or a good bricklayer he is a good citizen.

To take advantage of the greatest opportunities you must have the men.

If the man is a slack, shiftless creature I wish we could get rid of him.

I believe not in brilliancy, not in genius, I believe in the ordinary, humdrum, work-a-day virtues that make a man a good man in his family, a good neighbor, a good man to deal with in business, a good man to deal with in the State.

Now I feel that we did not give it half enough.

I have enjoyed being here.

Our duty is to lead our lives in a spirit of decency, of courage and of common sense, that will make us fit to be citizens of this great republic.

No worthier object can be striven after than the creation of a building such as this for the benefit of those to whom every American owes so much—the enlisted men of the United States navy.

it is even a greater thing to be what all of us are—Americans.

It is absolutely essential, if we are to have the proper standard of public life, that promise shall be square with performance.

The one indispensable thing for us to keep is a high standard of character for the average American citizen.

I have enjoyed to the utmost my stay in California, my visits to its greatest cities.

I have come from the Atlantic across the continent to the Pacific; I have come from the East through the West, beyond the West, to California.

The business of finding a scapegoat to send loose into the wilderness is neither honorable nor dignified for a self-respecting people to be engaged in.

We won at Manila because the shipbuilders of the country, including those here at San Francisco, under the wise provisions of Congress, had for fifteen years before been preparing the navy.