It is a fine thing to have before a body of students men who by their practice have rendered it unnecessary that they should preach

It speaks well for our nation that men and women should desire during their lives to devote the fortunes which they were able to acquire or to inherit because of our system of government, to objects so entirely worthy and so entirely…

There are no other trees anywhere like the giant Sequoias; nowhere else is there a more beautiful forest than that which clothes the western slope of the Sierra.

The more efficient a man is the more dangerous he is if that efficiency is not guided by the proper type of spirit, by the proper sense of moral responsibility.

I think I was a fairly good American a week ago when I came into your State, but I am a better one now.

I have enjoyed being in California for the last week, and it has been the greatest possible pleasure.

It is a very great pleasure to be here.

I want to thank you very much for your courtesy in receiving me.

Cut down one of these giants and you cannot fill its place.

I believe in you, my countrymen; I believe in our people, and therefore I believe that they will dare to be great.

We should keep the trees as we should keep great stretches of the wildernesses as a heritage for our children and our children's children.

The one thing on which this country must forever be a unit is the navy.

I do not know of anything that bids better for our material well-being than the tree culture;

I am glad to have seen you.

This is the first glimpse I have ever had of the big trees.

I do hope that it will be your object to preserve them as nature made them and left them, for the future.

I want to see you play hard while you play, and when you work do not play at all.

We must make it an even better one in the future.