I believe in children.

Best of all it is to have what counts for more than body and more than mind, character—character, into which a good many different elements enter, but these especially.

All that the law can do is to try to secure a fair deal, to try to give each man a chance to show the stuff that is in him; and if the stuff is not in him you cannot get it out of him because it is not there.

Railroading is one of those professions which, like following the deep sea fisheries, necessarily implies the acceptance of risk and danger.

I am glad that they seem to be all right in quality and all right in quantity.

After all, that is the fundamental principle of our government.

I believe in you, and I want to see the future people like you.

I congratulate you upon the output from the mines, next the ranches, but most of all the children.

This government is not and never shall be a government either of a plutocracy or of a mob.

The best citizen is the man who is a good husband, a good father; the woman who is a good wife, a good mother.

The citizen who counts in the development of the state is the man or woman who makes this his or her home.

The line that in the elemental matters we must ever draw is the line of conduct.

I do not have to tell you here that when you get irrigation fairly applied, rain is a poor substitute for it.

Our object should be sedulously to provide against letting great tracts of land go into the hands of any one man or of any one corporation.

I congratulate you upon the chances of diversifying your industries.

Much can be done by the aid of the government, by the aid of the State; but, after all, the fundamental thing in bringing success to any community is the quality of the average man, the average woman, in that community.

This is not, and never shall be, a government of a plutocracy; it is not, and never shall be, a government by a mob.

The most unsafe adviser to follow is the man who would advise us to do wrong in order that we may benefit by it.