I believe in you with all my heart and I believe that the century that is opening contains the promise of the greatest achievement for this nation that any nation has ever enjoyed ...
I ask that we keep in mind not only our own interests, but the interests of our children.
But pleased though I am to see your abounding material prosperity, the products of your soil, the thing I am most pleased with is you yourse...
We stand on the threshold of a new century.
All kinds of honorable work entitle those following them to honor.
I do not care how moral a man is, if his morality is only good while he sits at home in his own parlor, you can do nothing with him.
I want to say a word to the teachers.
I have been astonished and delighted with your extraordinary success in so many different types of industries—mining, agriculture of so many...
The future of the State depends not upon what is material, for that you can produce if you have the heart, the hand, and the head to do it; ...
We do not believe here in this republic in the men who seek only the life of ease, the life of absence of effort.
It has always seemed to me that we should profit by the lessons that they taught, not merely in war, but in peace.