
I cannot say how I have appreciated being here in your beautiful State and your beautiful city.
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I cannot say how I have appreciated being here in your beautiful State and your beautiful city.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say that important though it is to develop factories, railroads, farms, commerce, the thing that counts is the development of citizenship.

We are living right in the middle of them now, only we are living under pleasanter auspices.

The thing that has impressed me most is that I am speaking to Americans just as I speak in any other section of the country!

Each one of us must remember that any one may and will at times slip.

The first thing that the individual man has to do is to pull his own weight, to earn his own way, not to be a drag on the community.

Any man who claims that there can be liberty in spite of and against the law is claiming that anarchy is liberty.

You have done this great work of building up a new community.

I believe in you. I believe in your future. I believe in our future.

I like your stock and I am glad it is not dying out.

One thing that strikes me more than anything else as I go through the country.

It is a good thing to grow citrus fruits, but it is even a better thing to have the right kind of citizenship.

I wish to say a word of special acknowledgment to the teachers.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

I believe in the future of this country because I believe in the men and women whom we are developing in the country.

I wish you well at all times and in every way, and I bid you good luck and good night.