"I most earnestly hope that this work will ever be of a peaceful character"
"The more efficient a man is the more dangerous he is if that efficiency is not guided by the proper type of spirit, by the proper sense of moral responsibility."
"I think I was a fairly good American a week ago when I came into your State, but I am a better one now."
"Every decent American ought to be proud of the army and the navy of Uncle Sam."
"It is a fine thing to have before a body of students men who by their practice have rendered it unnecessary that they should preach"
"With decency there must go the power practically to apply it in life, practically to work it out, and to work it out for the benefit of others as well as for one's self."
"There is no royal road to good government."
"It is not enough to have mere efficiency."
"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..."
"There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship."
"And you, men and women, who have had the advantages of a college training are not to be excused if you fail to do not as well as, but if you fail to do more than the average man outside who has not ha..."
"I want you to play hard without encroaching on your work."
"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..."
"I have enjoyed being in California for the last week, and it has been the greatest possible pleasure."
"I do not want you to turn out prigs; I do not want you to turn out the self-conscious."
"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 come to California; I have seen; and I have been conquered by California's citizens and California's Governor."
"There is but one real way in which any man can be helped, and that is by teaching him to help himself."
