I have enjoyed every hour I have been in your beautiful and wonderful State.

A nation like ours, with the unique position of fronting at once on the Atlantic and the Pacific, a nation forced by the mere fact of destiny to play a great, a mighty, a masterful part in the world, cannot afford to neglect its navy.

I am, oh, so glad to be here.

To pin those cards up there is as much out of place as if you tacked so many tin cans up there.

It is a peculiar pleasure to me to address the children.

I am glad to see the way in which the old mission buildings are being preserved.

We must see to it that no man for speculative purposes or for mere temporary use exploits the groves of great trees.

We must go on with the task as we have begun it.

We must have a first-class navy.

I shall only say how glad I am to be here, bid you welcome with all my heart, and say how thoroughly I believe in you, and that I am a better American for being among you.

Where the individuals and associations of individuals cannot preserve them, the State, and, if necessary, the nation, should step in and see to their preservation.

I wish you, the Forest Rangers, and also all the others, to protect the game and wild creatures.

I am glad to see what has been done by your beet culture, fruit culture of every kind, irrigation, and tilling of the soil.

In the last analysis the nation will go up or go down according to the standard of the average man or woman.

Sometimes people grow so familiar with their surroundings that they fail entirely to appreciate them.

New methods must be devised for meeting the various problems that come up.

Greatness comes only to those who seek not how to avoid obstacles, but how to overcome them.

I have come from the Atlantic across the continent, and here I am addressing an American audience with the same ideals, the same aspirations, the same hopes, the same purposes, that the audiences have on the Atlantic seaboard, or in the…