I shall only say how glad I am to be here, bid you welcome with all my heart, and say how thoroughly I believe in you, and that I am a better American for being among you.

I am glad to have seen you.

A nation like ours, with the unique position of fronting at once on the Atlantic and the Pacific, a nation forced by the mere fact of destiny to play a great, a mighty, a masterful part in the world, cannot afford to neglect its navy.

Where the individuals and associations of individuals cannot preserve them, the State, and, if necessary, the nation, should step in and see to their preservation.

It is a very great pleasure to be here.

I do hope that it will be your object to preserve them as nature made them and left them, for the future.

I do not know of anything that bids better for our material well-being than the tree culture;

I want to see you play hard while you play, and when you work do not play at all.

I believe in you, my countrymen; I believe in our people, and therefore I believe that they will dare to be great.

Cut down one of these giants and you cannot fill its place.

We should keep the trees as we should keep great stretches of the wildernesses as a heritage for our children and our children's children.

The one thing on which this country must forever be a unit is the navy.

I want to thank you very much for your courtesy in receiving me.

We must go on with the task as we have begun it.

I am, oh, so glad to be here.

More and more our people have waked to the fact that farming is not only a practical, but a scientific pursuit.

Today, for the first time in my life, I have seen the greatest of the oceans; I have come across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific; from the East to the West.

I wish you, the Forest Rangers, and also all the others, to protect the game and wild creatures.