If any one lies, if he has the habit of untruthfulness, you cannot deal with him, because there is nothing to depend on.

Our aim must be to hand over to our children not an impoverished but an improved heritage.

I believe in you, men and women of California, men and women of America, of the United States, because I feel that you are not only sound in body and sound in mind, but that which counts for more than body, more than mind—character.

New methods must be devised for meeting the various problems that come up.

I am glad to see what has been done by your beet culture, fruit culture of every kind, irrigation, and tilling of the soil.

I am, as you gentlemen probably know, exceedingly interested in the question of forestry preservation.

As you have for your good fortune been placed down in this beautiful region with its wonderful climate, with its soil, with all the chance for development that it offers, so we have a right to expect a particularly high type of American…

I am not surprised at it, because the last two days in California have taught me not to be surprised at anything.

Our aim must be by laws promotive of irrigation, by laws securing the wise use in perpetuity of the forests, by laws shaped in every way to promote the permanent interests of the country.

The qualities needed to solve aright the problems of today are the same qualities that were needed by the men who in 1861 found themselves confronted with the question of whether or not this country should remain all united and free, or…

The poorest life that any one can live from the standpoint of pleasure is the life that has nothing but pleasure as its end and aim.

It is the first time I ever was in your great and beautiful State; and but a few hours ago I saw for the first time the greatest of all the oceans.

I think I was a pretty good American when I came here, but I feel that I am a better American now.

In the last analysis the nation will go up or go down according to the standard of the average man or woman.

Sometimes people grow so familiar with their surroundings that they fail entirely to appreciate them.

Greatness comes only to those who seek not how to avoid obstacles, but how to overcome them.

I have come from the Atlantic across the continent, and here I am addressing an American audience with the same ideals, the same aspirations, the same hopes, the same purposes, that the audiences have on the Atlantic seaboard, or in the…

You can pardon most anything in a man who will tell the truth, because you know where that man is; you know what he means.