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.

You need various qualities to make a State great, a nation great.

It is particularly a pleasure to be in a State already great, and yet with an infinitely greater future before it.

It has always seemed to me that we should profit by the lessons that they taught, not merely in war, but in peace.

I want to say a word to the teachers.

I believe in play and I believe in work.

I have enjoyed to the full my visit to California.

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 yourselves, the men and women.

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 since the dim days when history dawned.

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 ask that we keep in mind not only our own interests, but the interests of our children.

One lesson of that brotherhood is the self-respect that respects others.

You practice what I preach, and I hope I do myself, too.

All kinds of honorable work entitle those following them to honor.

Play hard while you play, and when you work do not play at all.

I believe in your future, because I believe in you—not only in the climate and the soil.

It does not make any difference what work the man is doing if he does it well.

I believe not in brilliancy, not in genius, I believe in the ordinary, humdrum, work-a-day virtues that make a man a good man in his family, a good neighbor, a good man to deal with in business, a good man to deal with in the State.

To take advantage of the greatest opportunities you must have the men.

I do not care whether a man is a banker or a bricklayer; if he is a good banker or a good bricklayer he is a good citizen.

If the man is a slack, shiftless creature I wish we could get rid of him.

Now I feel that we did not give it half enough.

Our duty is to lead our lives in a spirit of decency, of courage and of common sense, that will make us fit to be citizens of this great republic.

I have enjoyed being here.

I have come from the Atlantic across the continent to the Pacific; I have come from the East through the West, beyond the West, to California.