"I want to say a word to the teachers."
"Play hard while you play, and when you work do not play at all."
"I have been astonished and delighted with your extraordinary success in so many different types of industries—mining, agriculture of so many kinds, manufacturing, your wonderful commerce."
"You need various qualities to make a State great, a nation great."
"It has always seemed to me that we should profit by the lessons that they taught, not merely in war, but in peace."
"I believe in you with all my heart and I believe that the century that is opening contains the promise of the greatest achievement for this nation that any nation has ever enjoyed since the dim days w..."
"If a man does his duty he is a good citizen and we should be proud of him."
"I have enjoyed to the full my visit to California."
"It is particularly a pleasure to be in a State already great, and yet with an infinitely greater future before it."
"I believe in play and I believe in work."
"Instead of the life of ease I preach to all worthy to be called men, the life of work, the life of endeavor."
"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."
"The next generation determines the fate of this country."
"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 a..."
"We do not believe here in this republic in the men who seek only the life of ease, the life of absence of effort."
"All kinds of honorable work entitle those following them to honor."
"We stand on the threshold of a new century."
"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 goo..."
