Instead of the life of ease I preach to all worthy to be called men, the life of work, the life of endeavor.

I ask that we keep in mind not only our own interests, but the interests of our children.

I have been astonished and delighted with your extraordinary success in so many different types of industries—mining, agriculture of so many kinds, manufacturing, your wonderful commerce.

You practice what I preach, and I hope I do myself, too.

It has always seemed to me that we should profit by the lessons that they taught, not merely in war, but in peace.

The next generation determines the fate of this country.

We stand on the threshold of a new century.

I believe in you with all my heart and I believe that the century that is opening contains the promise of the greatest achievement for this nation that any nation has ever enjoyed since the dim days when history dawned.

There is no body of men and women in all our country to whom so much is owing as to those who are training the next generation.

I am proud of you, proud to be your fellow-citizen.

But pleased though I am to see your abounding material prosperity, the products of your soil, the thing I am most pleased with is you yourselves, the men and women.

I do not care how moral a man is, if his morality is only good while he sits at home in his own parlor, you can do nothing with him.

We do not believe here in this republic in the men who seek only the life of ease, the life of absence of effort.

If a man does his duty he is a good citizen and we should be proud of him.

I believe in play and I believe in work.

I believe in your future, because I believe in you—not only in the climate and the soil.

It does not make any difference what work the man is doing if he does it well.

If the man is a slack, shiftless creature I wish we could get rid of him.