"Where the individuals and associations of individuals cannot preserve them, the State, and, if necessary, the nation, should step in and see to their preservation."
"The one thing on which this country must forever be a unit is the navy."
"I want to thank you very much for your courtesy in receiving me."
"I am glad to have seen you."
"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."
"We must have a first-class navy."
"I do hope that it will be your object to preserve them as nature made them and left them, for the future."
"It is a peculiar pleasure to me to address the children."
"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."
"It is a very great pleasure to be here."
"I want to see you play hard while you play, and when you work do not play at all."
"Cut down one of these giants and you cannot fill its place."
"I believe in you, my countrymen; I believe in our people, and therefore I believe that they will dare to be great."
"I am, oh, so glad to be here."
"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, ..."
"To pin those cards up there is as much out of place as if you tacked so many tin cans up there."
"I have enjoyed every hour I have been in your beautiful and wonderful State."
"This is the first glimpse I have ever had of the big trees."
