I thank you most warmly for the greeting you have extended to me this evening.

Each man of you who looks back on his life will feel proud to hand to his children, not the memory of the days of ease, but the days that were pretty hard, that meant hard work, but wherein he did something.

I despise the man who will not work.

For that I do not pity them. I admire them.

I thank you.

It is a great thing to have had forefathers who did their work well in the world.

You ought not to want to see it anyway; but only now and then comes the chance to do the good work in war.

I believe in preaching, but I believe in practice a good deal more.

Both must be put down.

You have manufactories in your town—shoes, linen, underwear.

The good citizenship has to come from the people themselves.

There is no royal road to good government any more than there is a royal road to learning.

You can give a child every advantage, give him books and the teachers, but he has got to learn, he has got to do that himself.

It has been to me a very great pleasure to visit your State, and above all, to meet your people.

You have hay and stock farms outside, and you, therefore, have in this community the farmer and the towns man, the employer and the wage worker.

You can frame laws and have a good constitution, and after all has been done that you can do in that way you have accomplished simply the creating of conditions which render it possible to have good citizenship.

In this life as a rule the job that is easy to do is not very well worth while doing.

Let's devote our best thought and best energies to finding some method of getting rid of any and all evils in the body politic.