"I do pay proper heed to them."
"If you doubt my words, do not believe them."
"I congratulate you, my fellow citizens, upon what you are doing here, in this great State, in bringing up your children worthily to continue the work that the pioneers began, and that you are helping ..."
"I cannot sufficiently congratulate you, Mr. President, upon what has been done here with this college."
"We do not know the cost, but we know it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result;"
"I believe in the pioneer, even when he is as well dressed as the pioneer I am addressing."
"Think of having a Sound with about fifteen hundred miles of possible dockage!"
"I want to thank you and through you your fellow workmen for this token."
"I earnestly hope that the need for war will never come to our people."
"The spirit of class hatred is as base if it takes one shape as if it takes the other."
"We need to have built upon it the kind of life which will give to the citizenship of the community the chance of developing itself along the loftiest lines."
"I am a pretty good Westerner; I am accustomed to seeing extraordinary growth, but what I have seen today has astonished me."
"I am happy to say that during the last year or two the National Legislature has begun to realize its responsibilities in reference to Alaska;"
"And think how absolutely the event has falsified the predictions of those men."
"Nothing could have pleased me more than to have received this gift from the men of the yard, and I appreciate it."
"The republics of antiquity and of the middle ages all failed and almost invariably because a bitter factional war began among them."
"There is no other body of water in the world which confers upon the commonwealth possessing it quite the natural advantages that Puget Sound confers upon this State; and there is no other State in the..."
"This government cannot and shall not become a government either of a plutocracy or of a mob."
