I only wish it had been possible to make it eight times as much instead.

I should be ashamed of you if you were not

I should be ashamed of you if you were not, living in such a state as this.

If he is worth his salt he will work.

Our government has so far escaped the twin dangers of the older republics, government by a plutocracy or government by a mob, either of them absolutely alien to American ideals.

Constitution, laws,—they are good things, indispensable things, to have right, but you must have the men behind them or they will amount to but little.

It is the fact of doing the work well that counts, not the kind of work, as long as that work is honorable.

This is to be my last day in California, and I leave the State with the liveliest appreciation of the courtesy with which I have been received.

We cannot be dragged up, we have got to push ourselves up.

I pity no man because he has to work.

The essential thing in any State is the character of the average man or woman.

The thing that has impressed me more than anything else in addressing the different audiences is that a good American is a good American in whatever part of this country he lives.

I envy the man who has a work worth doing and does it well;

I am glad to meet all of you.

Success will come in the long run to the man or the nation possessing the attributes that have conquered success from the days when we first have written records of the nations of mankind.

There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

I understand now.

Our government is based upon the rule of a self-respecting majority.