"New methods must be devised for meeting the various problems that come up."
"In the last analysis the nation will go up or go down according to the standard of the average man or woman."
"Sometimes people grow so familiar with their surroundings that they fail entirely to appreciate them."
"Greatness comes only to those who seek not how to avoid obstacles, but how to overcome them."
"I am glad to see what has been done by your beet culture, fruit culture of every kind, irrigation, and tilling of the soil."
"Today, for the first time in my life, I have seen the greatest of the oceans; I have come across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific; from the East to the West."
"I am, as you gentlemen probably know, exceedingly interested in the question of forestry preservation."
"You can pardon most anything in a man who will tell the truth, because you know where that man is; you know what he means."
"The qualities needed to solve aright the problems of today are the same qualities that were needed by the men who in 1861 found themselves confronted with the question of whether or not this country s..."
"If any one lies, if he has the habit of untruthfulness, you cannot deal with him, because there is nothing to depend on."
"I believe in you with all my heart and soul, and I believe that your future will be even greater than your past."
"Our aim must be to hand over to our children not an impoverished but an improved heritage."
"When I come here to California I am not in the West, I am west of the West."
"I believe in you, men and women of California, men and women of America, of the United States, because I feel that you are not only sound in body and sound in mind, but that which counts for more than..."
"Every college should strive to bring to development among the students the capacity to do good original work."
"We can solve aright all the difficult problems that come up because of and through our modern civilization."
"The thing that has impressed me most is that I am speaking to Americans just as I speak in any other section of the country!"
"Ours is a government of equal rights under the law, guaranteeing those rights to each man so long as he in his turn refrains from wronging his brother."
