"The citizen who counts in the development of the state is the man or woman who makes this his or her home."
"All that the law can do is to try to secure a fair deal, to try to give each man a chance to show the stuff that is in him; and if the stuff is not in him you cannot get it out of him because it is no..."
"I congratulate you upon the output from the mines, next the ranches, but most of all the children."
"It is a good thing to have a sound body; it is a better thing to have a sound mind."
"Railroading is one of those professions which, like following the deep sea fisheries, necessarily implies the acceptance of risk and danger."
"I do not believe that Congress has for many years passed any law relating to our internal development so wise as the irrigation law of a year ago."
"Play hard while you play, and when you work don't play at all."
"I doubt if there is any State which will profit more by the increase in the application of irrigation to our needs than is the case with the State of Idaho."
"Our object should be sedulously to provide against letting great tracts of land go into the hands of any one man or of any one corporation."
"I congratulate you upon the chances of diversifying your industries."
"After all, that is the fundamental principle of our government."
"We do not want the absentee proprietor."
"Much can be done by the aid of the government, by the aid of the State; but, after all, the fundamental thing in bringing success to any community is the quality of the average man, the average woman,..."
"And Congress, the National Legislature, has not of recent years put upon the statute books any law as wise, as beneficent as the National irrigation act of a year ago."
"We are going to see great manufacturing centers here in Montana taking advantage of the power of your waters."
"You need first of all to distribute the water in space through the irrigating ditches, and then to preserve it in time by storage in reservoirs."
"We are bound in honor to try to remedy injustice; but if we are wise we will seek to remedy it in practical ways."
"This is not, and never shall be, a government of a plutocracy; it is not, and never shall be, a government by a mob."
