Great good has come from the development of our railroad system.

I ask that we see to it in our country that the line of division in the deeper matters of our citizenship be drawn, never between section and section, never between creed and creed, never, thrice never, between class and class.

His folly is greater than the folly of any other man who so complains; for he lives and moves and has his being because the law does in fact protect him and his property.

Incidentally, whether he acquiesce or not, the law will be enforced, and this whoever he may be, great or small, and at whichever end of the social scale he may be.

No man is above it and no man is below it.

We have the right to ask every decent American citizen to rally to the support of the law if it is ever broken against the interest of the rich man.

Every man who has made wealth or used it in developing great legitimate business enterprises has been of benefit and not harm to the country at large.

Ours is a government of liberty by, through and under the law.

While all people are foolish if they violate or rail against the law—wicked as well as foolish, but all foolish—yet the most foolish man in this Republic is the man of wealth who complains because the law is administered with impartial…

I congratulate you, my fellow citizens, upon what you are doing here, in this great State, in bringing up your children worthily to continue the work that the pioneers began, and that you are helping carry to completion.

I do pay proper heed to them.

Let me greet those whom I know.

I cannot sufficiently congratulate you, Mr. President, upon what has been done here with this college.

If you doubt my words, do not believe them.

Do not misunderstand me.

I believe in the pioneer, even when he is as well dressed as the pioneer I am addressing.

Nothing could have pleased me more than to have received this gift from the men of the yard, and I appreciate it.

And think how absolutely the event has falsified the predictions of those men.

The preservation of our forests depends chiefly upon the wisdom with which the practical lumberman, the expert in dealing with the lumber industry, works with the men who have studied the scientific side of forestry.

This government cannot and shall not become a government either of a plutocracy or of a mob.

Very few European races have exercised a more profound influence upon Europe, and none has had a more heroic history, than the race occupying the Scandinavian countries of the Old World.

I confess I am for the moment a little surprised at the aspect of so many of the Alaskan pioneers.

I am a pretty good Westerner; I am accustomed to seeing extraordinary growth, but what I have seen today has astonished me.

I try to practice it myself, too.

I am anxious that our laws should be framed in the interest of those who intend to go there and stay there and bring up their children there and make it in very fact as well as in name an integral part of this Republic.