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 upon them to respond.

I have come to California; I have seen; and I have been conquered by California's citizens and California's Governor.

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 no royal road to good government.

It would be hard to overestimate the amount of good work done by the Young Men's Christian Associations and the Young Women's Christian Associations.

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 want you to play hard without encroaching on your work.

There is but one real way in which any man can be helped, and that is by teaching him to help himself.

We should keep the trees as we should keep great stretches of the wildernesses as a heritage for our children and our children's children.

A nation like ours, with the unique position of fronting at once on the Atlantic and the Pacific, a nation forced by the mere fact of destiny to play a great, a mighty, a masterful part in the world, cannot afford to neglect its navy.

We must make it an even better one in the future.

I shall only say how glad I am to be here, bid you welcome with all my heart, and say how thoroughly I believe in you, and that I am a better American for being among you.

We must have a first-class navy.

I want to see you play hard while you play, and when you work do not play at all.

I have enjoyed every hour I have been in your beautiful and wonderful State.

I do not know of anything that bids better for our material well-being than the tree culture;

I am glad to have seen you.

I am, oh, so glad to be here.