I should be ashamed of you if you were not, living in such a state as this.
I am impressed, as every man must be, with what our nation is to have within its borders a State such as this.
I envy the man who has a work worth doing and does it well;
Our government has so far escaped the twin dangers of the older republics, government by a plutocracy or government by a...
Constitution, laws,—they are good things, indispensable things, to have right, but you must have the men behind them or ...
It is a great pleasure to see you to-day.
There is no patent recipe for making a good citizen any more than there is any patent recipe for making a successful man...
The thing that has impressed me more than anything else in addressing the different audiences is that a good American is...
This State is in boundaries and resources greater than many an Old World empire; and think what it is to be a citizen of...
I should be ashamed of you if you were not
We cannot be dragged up, we have got to push ourselves up.
The essential thing in any State is the character of the average man or woman.
Our government is based upon the rule of a self-respecting majority.
I want to see the average American citizen be in the future as he has been in the past, a decent man, doing no wrong.
I hardly think that you yourselves can realize what a wonderful State it is, a State as large and as diversified as many...
I understand now.
It is just so in civil life, and the man has to be a decent man, a square man, a man who acts square by his neighbors, f...
I congratulate you upon all the crops, but especially upon the children.
