Forestry, irrigation, all the efforts of the nation and the State governments, all the efforts of individuals and of local associations are to be bent to the object of building up the interests of the home-maker.

You seem to be all right in quality and in quantity.

I believe in the future of this country because I believe in the men and women whom we are developing in the country.

One thing that strikes me more than anything else as I go through the country.

More than that we need strong minds, and finally we need what counts for more than body, for more than mind—character.

I have felt that the events of the last five or six years have been steadily hastening the day when the Pacific will loom in the world's commerce as the Atlantic now looms.

It is a good thing to grow citrus fruits, but it is even a better thing to have the right kind of citizenship.

I am glad to see you, I believe in you, and I thank you.

I am enjoying so much coming into California.

I greet you today. I am glad to be here in your beautiful country.

I wish to say how glad I am to see you.

We need strong bodies.

Down at bottom we are the same people all through.

I wish you well at all times and in every way, and I bid you good luck and good night.

I like your stock and I am glad it is not dying out.

I wish to say a word of special acknowledgment to the teachers.

Back of the law stands the man; just exactly as in battle it is the man behind the gun that counts most, even more than the gun.

I have looked forward toward visiting your wonderful and beautiful State for years, and I am so glad of having the chance of being here.

I earnestly wish that I could have many another community learn from you how you have handled your business.

You know well the claim that comradeship in war makes between man and man.

I congratulate you upon all that has been done, and I am certain that the future will far more than make good the past.

How could I help being fond of people with whom I have worked, with whom I marched to battle?

There was in the regiment but one kind of rivalry among those men, and but one would have been tolerated.

I should count myself wholly unworthy of the position I hold if I did not strive to represent the people of the mountains and the plains exactly as much as those of the Mississippi Valley or of either coast, Atlantic or Pacific.

There can be no greater privilege than to meet a missionary who has done good work.