I believe in you with all my heart and soul, and I believe that your future will be even greater than your past.

The poorest life that any one can live from the standpoint of pleasure is the life that has nothing but pleasure as its end and aim.

Our aim must be to hand over to our children not an impoverished but an improved heritage.

When I come here to California I am not in the West, I am west of the West.

Greatness only comes because the task to be done is great.

The business man or politician who does not tell the truth cheats; and for the cheat we should have no use in any walk of life.

It is the first time I ever was in your great and beautiful State; and but a few hours ago I saw for the first time the greatest of all the oceans.

More and more our people have waked to the fact that farming is not only a practical, but a scientific pursuit.

I believe in you, men and women of California, men and women of America, of the United States, because I feel that you are not only sound in body and sound in mind, but that which counts for more than body, more than mind—character.

Our aim must be by laws promotive of irrigation, by laws securing the wise use in perpetuity of the forests, by laws shaped in every way to promote the permanent interests of the country.

I am, as you gentlemen probably know, exceedingly interested in the question of forestry preservation.

I am not surprised at it, because the last two days in California have taught me not to be surprised at anything.

The qualities needed to solve aright the problems of today are the same qualities that were needed by the men who in 1861 found themselves confronted with the question of whether or not this country should remain all united and free, or…

I think I was a pretty good American when I came here, but I feel that I am a better American now.

Today, for the first time in my life, I have seen the greatest of the oceans; I have come across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific; from the East to the West.

I wish to say what a great pleasure it has been to be here today.

We have begun to take our position as a world power, a power situated on a continent fronting on two oceans, and we must have a navy to assert our position.

As you have for your good fortune been placed down in this beautiful region with its wonderful climate, with its soil, with all the chance for development that it offers, so we have a right to expect a particularly high type of American…