When I come here to California I am not in the West, I am west of the West.

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.

We have begun to take our position as a world power, a power situated on a continent fronting on two oceans, and we must have a navy to assert our position.

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.

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.

Today, for the first time in my life, I have seen the greatest of the oceans; I have come across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific; from the East to the West.

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

More and more our people have waked to the fact that farming is not only a practical, but a scientific pursuit.

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.

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…

I believe in you with all my heart and soul, and I believe that your future will be even greater than your past.

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

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

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.

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