I want to see the average American citizen be in the future as he has been in the past, a decent man, doing no wrong.
If he is worth his salt he will work.
This State is in boundaries and resources greater than many an Old World empire; and think what it is to be a citizen of a Union in which a ...
It is the fact of doing the work well that counts, not the kind of work, as long as that work is honorable.
I am glad to meet all of you.
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 receiv...
I pity no man because he has to work.
The essential thing in any State is the character of the average man or woman.
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...
There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
It is a great pleasure to see you to-day.
It is just so in civil life, and the man has to be a decent man, a square man, a man who acts square by his neighbors, fairly by the State, ...
There is no patent recipe for making a good citizen any more than there is any patent recipe for making a successful man.
We cannot be dragged up, we have got to push ourselves up.
I am impressed, as every man must be, with what our nation is to have within its borders a State such as this.
I only wish it had been possible to make it eight times as much instead.
I congratulate you upon all the crops, but especially upon the children.
Constitution, laws,—they are good things, indispensable things, to have right, but you must have the men behind them or they will amount to ...
