"I think I was a pretty good American when I came, but I am going away a better American."
"You builded even better than you knew when you saved the country."
"I congratulate you upon the output from the mines, next the ranches, but most of all the children."
"I do not have to tell you here that when you get irrigation fairly applied, rain is a poor substitute for it."
"Much can be done by the aid of the government, by the aid of the State; but, after all, the fundamental thing in bringing success to any community is the quality of the average man, the average woman,..."
"Best of all it is to have what counts for more than body and more than mind, character—character, into which a good many different elements enter, but these especially."
"This government is not and never shall be a government either of a plutocracy or of a mob."
"It is a good thing to have a sound body; it is a better thing to have a sound mind."
"I believe with all my heart in the Monroe Doctrine."
"All that the law can do is to try to secure a fair deal, to try to give each man a chance to show the stuff that is in him; and if the stuff is not in him you cannot get it out of him because it is no..."
"I believe in you, and I want to see the future people like you."
"I am glad that they seem to be all right in quality and all right in quantity."
"The best citizen is the man who is a good husband, a good father; the woman who is a good wife, a good mother."
"The line that in the elemental matters we must ever draw is the line of conduct."
"I congratulate you upon the chances of diversifying your industries."
"Our object should be sedulously to provide against letting great tracts of land go into the hands of any one man or of any one corporation."
"The law is no respecter of persons."
"This is not, and never shall be, a government of a plutocracy; it is not, and never shall be, a government by a mob."
