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, fairly by the State, or he cannot amount to anything;
This State is in boundaries and resources greater than many an Old World empire; and think what it is to be a citizen of a Union in which a ...
It is the fact of doing the work well that counts, not the kind of work, as long as that work is honorable.
Most of all I have enjoyed seeing you, the men and women of California.
I envy the man who has a work worth doing and does it well;
I should be ashamed of you if you were not
I am glad to meet all of you.
Success will come in the long run to the man or the nation possessing the attributes that have conquered success from the days when we first...
I hardly think that you yourselves can realize what a wonderful State it is, a State as large and as diversified as many an Old World empire...
There is no patent recipe for making a good citizen any more than there is any patent recipe for making a successful man.
There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.