I thank you most heartily for your kindness in coming to greet me

It has always seemed to me that we should profit by the lessons that they taught, not merely in war, but in peace.

I am proud of you, proud to be your fellow-citizen.

I believe in play and I believe in work.

Lying out at night under those giant Sequoias was lying in a temple built by no hand of man, a temple grander than any human architect could by any possibility build.

We stand on the threshold of a new century.

If a man does his duty he is a good citizen and we should be proud of him.

There is no body of men and women in all our country to whom so much is owing as to those who are training the next generation.

The future of the State depends not upon what is material, for that you can produce if you have the heart, the hand, and the head to do it; it depends upon the quality of heart, hand and head in the average American.

Play hard while you play, and when you work do not play at all.

All kinds of honorable work entitle those following them to honor.

You practice what I preach, and I hope I do myself, too.

But pleased though I am to see your abounding material prosperity, the products of your soil, the thing I am most pleased with is you yourselves, the men and women.

One lesson of that brotherhood is the self-respect that respects others.

I ask that we keep in mind not only our own interests, but the interests of our children.

We do not believe here in this republic in the men who seek only the life of ease, the life of absence of effort.

I believe not in brilliancy, not in genius, I believe in the ordinary, humdrum, work-a-day virtues that make a man a good man in his family, a good neighbor, a good man to deal with in business, a good man to deal with in the State.

I believe in your future, because I believe in you—not only in the climate and the soil.