Teddy Roosevelt

New methods must be devised for meeting the various problems that come up.

When I come here to California I am not in the West, I am west of the West.

The poorest life that any one can live from the standpoint of pleasure is the life that has nothing but pleasure as its end and aim.

I think I was a pretty good American when I came here, but I feel that I am a better American now.

I wish to say what a great pleasure it has been to be here today.

I am not surprised at it, because the last two days in California have taught me not to be surprised at anything.

It is the first time I ever was in your great and beautiful State; and but a few hours ago I saw for the first time the greatest of all the oceans.

Our aim must be by laws promotive of irrigation, by laws securing the wise use in perpetuity of the forests, by laws shaped in every way to promote the permanent interests of the country.

We have begun to take our position as a world power, a power situated on a continent fronting on two oceans, and we must have a navy to assert our position.

I wish you, the Forest Rangers, and also all the others, to protect the game and wild creatures.

The business man or politician who does not tell the truth cheats; and for the cheat we should have no use in any walk of life.

Greatness only comes because the task to be done is great.

You can pardon most anything in a man who will tell the truth, because you know where that man is; you know what he means.

In the last analysis the nation will go up or go down according to the standard of the average man or woman.

More and more our people have waked to the fact that farming is not only a practical, but a scientific pursuit.

Sometimes people grow so familiar with their surroundings that they fail entirely to appreciate them.

I believe in you, men and women of California, men and women of America, of the United States, because I feel that you are not only sound in body and sound in mind, but that which counts for more than body, more than mind—character.

Greatness comes only to those who seek not how to avoid obstacles, but how to overcome them.

If any one lies, if he has the habit of untruthfulness, you cannot deal with him, because there is nothing to depend on.

Any man who claims that there can be liberty in spite of and against the law is claiming that anarchy is liberty.

The first thing that the individual man has to do is to pull his own weight, to earn his own way, not to be a drag on the community.

Each one of us must remember that any one may and will at times slip.

In the war you had to have patriotism, but there was but little to be made of the man who was patriotic but who had a tendency to run away.

In saying good-by to you I want to say that it has been the greatest pleasure to see you.

We are all pretty much alike.