Teddy Roosevelt

I have enjoyed every hour I have been in your beautiful and wonderful State.

We must make it an even better one in the future.

This is the first glimpse I have ever had of the big trees.

I am glad to have seen you.

We should keep the trees as we should keep great stretches of the wildernesses as a heritage for our children and our children's children.

The one thing on which this country must forever be a unit is the navy.

I want to thank you very much for your courtesy in receiving me.

Cut down one of these giants and you cannot fill its place.

I believe in you, my countrymen; I believe in our people, and therefore I believe that they will dare to be great.

I do not know of anything that bids better for our material well-being than the tree culture;

I am glad to see the way in which the old mission buildings are being preserved.

I do hope that it will be your object to preserve them as nature made them and left them, for the future.

A nation like ours, with the unique position of fronting at once on the Atlantic and the Pacific, a nation forced by the mere fact of destiny to play a great, a mighty, a masterful part in the world, cannot afford to neglect its navy.

It is a peculiar pleasure to me to address the children.

We must see to it that no man for speculative purposes or for mere temporary use exploits the groves of great trees.

We must go on with the task as we have begun it.

It is a very great pleasure to be here.

I believe in you with all my heart and soul, and I believe that your future will be even greater than your past.

I am, as you gentlemen probably know, exceedingly interested in the question of forestry preservation.

Today, for the first time in my life, I have seen the greatest of the oceans; I have come across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific; from the East to the West.

Our aim must be to hand over to our children not an impoverished but an improved heritage.

I am glad to see what has been done by your beet culture, fruit culture of every kind, irrigation, and tilling of the soil.

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