When 1898 came and the war which President McKinley in all honesty and in all sincerity sought to avoid became inevitable, and was pressed upon him, he met it as he and you had met the crisis of 1861.

There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions in mankind.

Let me thank you for coming out to see me, and say how I have enjoyed coming here.

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

It will be a bad day for this country and a worse day for all educative institutions in this country if ever such a call is made, and the men of college training do not feel it peculiarly incumbent upon them to respond.

There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship.

It would be hard to overestimate the amount of good work done by the Young Men's Christian Associations and the Young Women's Christian Associations.

There is but one real way in which any man can be helped, and that is by teaching him to help himself.

I do not want you to turn out prigs; I do not want you to turn out the self-conscious.

I have come to California; I have seen; and I have been conquered by California's citizens and California's Governor.

The Y. M. C. A. stands for so much because it represents the work of men and women who to a generous enthusiasm for their fellows, to a lofty ideal of service for the Giver of good, and for all mankind, join the power to realize that ideal…

I want you to play hard without encroaching on your work.

I am glad to have the chance of acknowledging my obligations to him, and I am also glad that when I ask you to strive toward productive scholarship, toward productive citizenship, I can use the president of the university as an example.

Every decent American ought to be proud of the army and the navy of Uncle Sam.

And you, men and women, who have had the advantages of a college training are not to be excused if you fail to do not as well as, but if you fail to do more than the average man outside who has not had your advantages.

It is not enough to have mere efficiency.

There is no royal road to good government.

With decency there must go the power practically to apply it in life, practically to work it out, and to work it out for the benefit of others as well as for one's self.