I think our citizens are more and more realizing that they wish to perpetuate the things that are of use and also the things that are of beauty.

I have felt that the events of the last five or six years have been steadily hastening the day when the Pacific will loom in the world's commerce as the Atlantic now looms.

I cannot say to you how much I have looked forward to making the trip.

I am enjoying so much coming into California.

More than that we need strong minds, and finally we need what counts for more than body, for more than mind—character.

I want to say what a pleasure it is to see you.

I wish to congratulate the men and women of this city upon the children.

I greet you today. I am glad to be here in your beautiful country.

I wish to say how glad I am to see you.

I am glad to be welcomed by all of you, but most of all by the men of the Grand Army, and after them by my own comrades of the National Guard.

It is a good thing to grow citrus fruits, but it is even a better thing to have the right kind of citizenship.

I wish to say a word of special acknowledgment to the teachers.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

You seem to be all right in quality and in quantity.

I like your stock and I am glad it is not dying out.

There can be no greater privilege than to meet a missionary who has done good work.

How could I help being fond of people with whom I have worked, with whom I marched to battle?

I should count myself wholly unworthy of the position I hold if I did not strive to represent the people of the mountains and the plains exactly as much as those of the Mississippi Valley or of either coast, Atlantic or Pacific.