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.
There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.
There is no patent recipe for making a good citizen any more than there is any patent recipe for making a successful man...
I understand now.
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, f...
This is to be my last day in California, and I leave the State with the liveliest appreciation of the courtesy with whic...
I hardly think that you yourselves can realize what a wonderful State it is, a State as large and as diversified as many...
I am impressed, as every man must be, with what our nation is to have within its borders a State such as this.
I pity no man because he has to work.
Our government is based upon the rule of a self-respecting majority.
This State is in boundaries and resources greater than many an Old World empire; and think what it is to be a citizen of...
Our government has so far escaped the twin dangers of the older republics, government by a plutocracy or government by a...
I should be ashamed of you if you were not
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 gene...
The next generation determines the fate of this country.
The future of the State depends not upon what is material, for that you can produce if you have the heart, the hand, and...
We do not believe here in this republic in the men who seek only the life of ease, the life of absence of effort.
All kinds of honorable work entitle those following them to honor.
