I believe in your future, because I believe in you—not only in the climate and the soil.

I believe not in brilliancy, not in genius, I believe in the ordinary, humdrum, work-a-day virtues that make a man a good man in his family, a good neighbor, a good man to deal with in business, a good man to deal with in the State.

I do not care whether a man is a banker or a bricklayer; if he is a good banker or a good bricklayer he is a good citizen.

I have enjoyed being here.

Our duty is to lead our lives in a spirit of decency, of courage and of common sense, that will make us fit to be citizens of this great republic.

Now I feel that we did not give it half enough.

No worthier object can be striven after than the creation of a building such as this for the benefit of those to whom every American owes so much—the enlisted men of the United States navy.

it is even a greater thing to be what all of us are—Americans.

I am glad indeed to see you, to see the men, the women, and the children.

Envy is merely the meanest form of admiration, and a man who envies another admits thereby his own inferiority.

I ask of you the straightforward, earnest performance of duty in all the little things that come up day by day in business, in domestic life, in every way.

There is the same sound reason for distrusting the man who promises too much in public that there is for distrusting the man who promises too much in private business.

I wish to take this opportunity of thanking the men who work in the Navy Yard for the quality of the work that they do.

Great is your State, men and women of California, and a great thing it is to be a Californian.

Much though I have been interested in the wonderful physical beauty of this wonderful State, I have been infinitely more interested in its citizenship.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing less dignified than to indulge in boastfulness, in self-glorification as to the capacity of our soldiers and sailors while denying them the material which we are in honor bound to give them in order…

I demand it of you as a right, and hold you recreant to your duty if you fail to give it.

I have come from the Atlantic across the continent to the Pacific; I have come from the East through the West, beyond the West, to California.