You practice what I preach, and I hope I do myself, too.

I have enjoyed to the full my visit to California.

I am proud of you, proud to be your fellow-citizen.

Play hard while you play, and when you work do not play at all.

I thank you most heartily for your kindness in coming to greet me

It is particularly a pleasure to be in a State already great, and yet with an infinitely greater future before it.

Instead of the life of ease I preach to all worthy to be called men, the life of work, the life of endeavor.

It has always seemed to me that we should profit by the lessons that they taught, not merely in war, but in peace.

I ask that we keep in mind not only our own interests, but the interests of our children.

You need various qualities to make a State great, a nation great.

Lying out at night under those giant Sequoias was lying in a temple built by no hand of man, a temple grander than any human architect could by any possibility build.

But pleased though I am to see your abounding material prosperity, the products of your soil, the thing I am most pleased with is you yourselves, the men and women.

If a man does his duty he is a good citizen and we should be proud of him.

We do not believe here in this republic in the men who seek only the life of ease, the life of absence of effort.

The next generation determines the fate of this country.

It does not make any difference what work the man is doing if he does it well.

If the man is a slack, shiftless creature I wish we could get rid of him.

To take advantage of the greatest opportunities you must have the men.