"Our aim must be to hand over to our children not an impoverished but an improved heritage."
"I have come from the Atlantic across the continent, and here I am addressing an American audience with the same ideals, the same aspirations, the same hopes, the same purposes, that the audiences have..."
"As you have for your good fortune been placed down in this beautiful region with its wonderful climate, with its soil, with all the chance for development that it offers, so we have a right to expect ..."
"The poorest life that any one can live from the standpoint of pleasure is the life that has nothing but pleasure as its end and aim."
"New methods must be devised for meeting the various problems that come up."
"When I come here to California I am not in the West, I am west of the West."
"I think I was a pretty good American when I came here, but I feel that I am a better American now."
"I wish to say what a great pleasure it has been to be here today."
"I am not surprised at it, because the last two days in California have taught me not to be surprised at anything."
"It is the first time I ever was in your great and beautiful State; and but a few hours ago I saw for the first time the greatest of all the oceans."
"We have begun to take our position as a world power, a power situated on a continent fronting on two oceans, and we must have a navy to assert our position."
"The business man or politician who does not tell the truth cheats; and for the cheat we should have no use in any walk of life."
"Our aim must be by laws promotive of irrigation, by laws securing the wise use in perpetuity of the forests, by laws shaped in every way to promote the permanent interests of the country."
"I wish you, the Forest Rangers, and also all the others, to protect the game and wild creatures."
"Greatness only comes because the task to be done is great."
"In the last analysis the nation will go up or go down according to the standard of the average man or woman."
"Sometimes people grow so familiar with their surroundings that they fail entirely to appreciate them."
"Greatness comes only to those who seek not how to avoid obstacles, but how to overcome them."
