"If he is worth his salt he will work."
"I pity no man because he has to work."
"There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head."
"Constitution, laws,—they are good things, indispensable things, to have right, but you must have the men behind them or they will amount to but little."
"Most of all I have enjoyed seeing you, the men and women of California."
"I hardly think that you yourselves can realize what a wonderful State it is, a State as large and as diversified as many an Old World empire."
"I only wish it had been possible to make it eight times as much instead."
"I want to see the average American citizen be in the future as he has been in the past, a decent man, doing no wrong."
"I congratulate you upon all the crops, but especially upon the children."
"I am glad to meet all of you."
"I envy the man who has a work worth doing and does it well;"
"I should be ashamed of you if you were not, living in such a state as this."
"It is a great pleasure to see you to-day."
"We cannot be dragged up, we have got to push ourselves up."
"It is the fact of doing the work well that counts, not the kind of work, as long as that work is honorable."
"The thing that has impressed me more than anything else in addressing the different audiences is that a good American is a good American in whatever part of this country he lives."
"It is just so in civil life, and the man has to be a decent man, a square man, a man who acts square by his neighbors, fairly by the State, or he cannot amount to anything;"
"The essential thing in any State is the character of the average man or woman."
