There is no royal road to good government.

It speaks well for our nation that men and women should desire during their lives to devote the fortunes which they were able to acquire or to inherit because of our system of government, to objects so entirely worthy and so entirely…

There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions in mankind.

It would be hard to overestimate the amount of good work done by the Young Men's Christian Associations and the Young Women's Christian Associations.

There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship.

With decency there must go the power practically to apply it in life, practically to work it out, and to work it out for the benefit of others as well as for one's self.

I am glad to have the chance of acknowledging my obligations to him, and I am also glad that when I ask you to strive toward productive scholarship, toward productive citizenship, I can use the president of the university as an example.

And you, men and women, who have had the advantages of a college training are not to be excused if you fail to do not as well as, but if you fail to do more than the average man outside who has not had your advantages.

There is but one real way in which any man can be helped, and that is by teaching him to help himself.

I have come to California; I have seen; and I have been conquered by California's citizens and California's Governor.

I have enjoyed every hour I have been in your beautiful and wonderful State.

We must see to it that no man for speculative purposes or for mere temporary use exploits the groves of great trees.

I am glad to see the way in which the old mission buildings are being preserved.

It is a peculiar pleasure to me to address the children.

To pin those cards up there is as much out of place as if you tacked so many tin cans up there.

This is the first glimpse I have ever had of the big trees.

We must have a first-class navy.

We must make it an even better one in the future.