Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

The pioneer days have gone, but the need for the old pioneer virtues remains as great as ever.

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 so entirely worthy and so entirely…

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.

I want you to play hard without encroaching on your work.

There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions in mankind.

There is no patent recipe for getting good citizenship.

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 president of the university as an example.

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.

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

I do not want you to turn out prigs; I do not want you to turn out the self-conscious.

There is no royal road to good government.

Let me thank you for coming out to see me, and say how I have enjoyed coming here.

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 had your advantages.

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

I think I was a fairly good American a week ago when I came into your State, but I am a better one now.

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

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.