I am a pretty good Westerner; I am accustomed to seeing extraordinary growth, but what I have seen today has astonished me.

Stand just as quiet as possible; do not sway; just stand as quiet as possible.

I want to thank you and through you your fellow workmen for this token.

I earnestly hope that the need for war will never come to our people.

We need to have built upon it the kind of life which will give to the citizenship of the community the chance of developing itself along the loftiest lines.

I am anxious that our laws should be framed in the interest of those who intend to go there and stay there and bring up their children there and make it in very fact as well as in name an integral part of this Republic.

I earnestly hope that Congress will speedily provide for a delegate from Alaska,

The spirit of class hatred is as base if it takes one shape as if it takes the other.

I confess I am for the moment a little surprised at the aspect of so many of the Alaskan pioneers.

I earnestly hope that Congress will speedily provide for a delegate from Alaska, so that the people of the Territory may have some recognized exponent whose duty it shall be to place their needs before the national legislature.

The preservation of our forests depends chiefly upon the wisdom with which the practical lumberman, the expert in dealing with the lumber industry, works with the men who have studied the scientific side of forestry.

We do not know the cost, but we know it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result;

I try to practice it myself, too.

There is no other body of water in the world which confers upon the commonwealth possessing it quite the natural advantages that Puget Sound confers upon this State; and there is no other State in the Union, and I include all of them…

It is because of what they did that the President of the United States can travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Rio Grande to the forty-ninth parallel and be at home everywhere.

If you were not I would want to know what was the matter with you.

The only shots that count are the shots that hit.

With men such as you, and with two of your citizens, the father and mother of a boy like that, of course you are expansionists.