"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in ..."
"I want to thank you and my comrades of the Spanish-American War from my heart;"
"The Y. M. C. A. stands for so much because it represents the work of men and women who to a generous enthusiasm for their fellows, to a lofty ideal of service for the Giver of good, and for all mankin..."
"It will be a bad day for this country and a worse day for all educative institutions in this country if ever such a call is made, and the men of college training do not feel it peculiarly incumbent up..."
"There are no other trees anywhere like the giant Sequoias; nowhere else is there a more beautiful forest than that which clothes the western slope of the Sierra."
"I have enjoyed being in California for the last week, and it has been the greatest possible pleasure."
"I have come to California; I have seen; and I have been conquered by California's citizens and California's Governor."
"I do not want you to turn out prigs; I do not want you to turn out the self-conscious."
"No law that the wit of man has ever devised ever has made or ever will make the fool wise, the coward brave, or the weakling strong."
"There is but one real way in which any man can be helped, and that is by teaching him to help himself."
"Let me thank you for coming out to see me, and say how I have enjoyed coming here."
"I think I was a fairly good American a week ago when I came into your State, but I am a better one now."
"I am glad to have the chance of acknowledging my obligations to him, and I am also glad that when I ask you to strive toward productive scholarship, toward productive citizenship, I can use the presid..."
"Every decent American ought to be proud of the army and the navy of Uncle Sam."
"There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship."
"There is no royal road to good government."
"It speaks well for our nation that men and women should desire during their lives to devote the fortunes which they were able to acquire or to inherit because of our system of government, to objects s..."
"It is not enough to have mere efficiency."
