Success will come in the long run to the man or the nation possessing the attributes that have conquered success from th...
I am glad to meet all of you.
Most of all I have enjoyed seeing you, the men and women of California.
The essential thing in any State is the character of the average man or woman.
I congratulate you upon all the crops, but especially upon the children.
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 only wish it had been possible to make it eight times as much instead.
You practice what I preach, and I hope I do myself, too.
I have been astonished and delighted with your extraordinary success in so many different types of industries—mining, ag...
One lesson of that brotherhood is the self-respect that respects others.
Play hard while you play, and when you work do not play at all.
I have enjoyed to the full my visit to California.
We do not believe here in this republic in the men who seek only the life of ease, the life of absence of effort.
I believe in play and I believe in work.
Lying out at night under those giant Sequoias was lying in a temple built by no hand of man, a temple grander than any h...
Instead of the life of ease I preach to all worthy to be called men, the life of work, the life of endeavor.
It is particularly a pleasure to be in a State already great, and yet with an infinitely greater future before it.
But pleased though I am to see your abounding material prosperity, the products of your soil, the thing I am most please...