The thing that has impressed me more than anything else in addressing the different audiences is that a good American is a good American in whatever part of this country he lives.

If he is worth his salt he will work.

Most of all I have enjoyed seeing you, the men and women of California.

I congratulate you upon all the crops, but especially upon the children.

I understand now.

The essential thing in any State is the character of the average man or woman.

Constitution, laws,—they are good things, indispensable things, to have right, but you must have the men behind them or they will amount to but little.

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 generation.

I believe in play and I believe in work.

All kinds of honorable work entitle those following them to honor.

I believe in you with all my heart and I believe that the century that is opening contains the promise of the greatest achievement for this nation that any nation has ever enjoyed since the dim days when history dawned.

The future of the State depends not upon what is material, for that you can produce if you have the heart, the hand, and the head to do it; it depends upon the quality of heart, hand and head in the average American.

One lesson of that brotherhood is the self-respect that respects others.

I want to say a word to the teachers.

I have been astonished and delighted with your extraordinary success in so many different types of industries—mining, agriculture of so many kinds, manufacturing, your wonderful commerce.

We stand on the threshold of a new century.

You see, in '98 we had a difficulty from which you were wholly free in '61, because with us there was not enough war to go around.

I do not care how moral a man is, if his morality is only good while he sits at home in his own parlor, you can do nothing with him.