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...
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 th...
I hardly think that you yourselves can realize what a wonderful State it is, a State as large and as diversified as many...
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.