It is a good thing to have a sound body; it is a better thing to have a sound mind.

You builded even better than you knew when you saved the country.

The line that in the elemental matters we must ever draw is the line of conduct.

I do not have to tell you here that when you get irrigation fairly applied, rain is a poor substitute for it.

Best of all it is to have what counts for more than body and more than mind, character—character, into which a good many different elements enter, but these especially.

I do not believe that Congress has for many years passed any law relating to our internal development so wise as the irrigation law of a year ago.

I believe in children.

I believe with all my heart in the Monroe Doctrine.

I congratulate you upon the chances of diversifying your industries.

I doubt if there is any State which will profit more by the increase in the application of irrigation to our needs than is the case with the State of Idaho.

All that the law can do is to try to secure a fair deal, to try to give each man a chance to show the stuff that is in him; and if the stuff is not in him you cannot get it out of him because it is not there.

I think I was a pretty good American when I came, but I am going away a better American.

This government is not and never shall be a government either of a plutocracy or of a mob.

No law that the wit of man has even devised can make or ever will make a fool wise, or a coward brave, or a weakling strong.

Railroading is one of those professions which, like following the deep sea fisheries, necessarily implies the acceptance of risk and danger.

The best citizen is the man who is a good husband, a good father; the woman who is a good wife, a good mother.

You need first of all to distribute the water in space through the irrigating ditches, and then to preserve it in time by storage in reservoirs.

And Congress, the National Legislature, has not of recent years put upon the statute books any law as wise, as beneficent as the National irrigation act of a year ago.