Teddy Roosevelt

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

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.

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

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

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

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 am enjoying so much coming into California.

I want to say what a pleasure it is to see you.

We need strong bodies.

I think our citizens are more and more realizing that they wish to perpetuate the things that are of use and also the things that are of beauty.

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

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

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

Down at bottom we are the same people all through.

Good laws can do much. Good administration of the laws can do much.

I cannot say to you how much I have looked forward to making the trip.

Of all the work that is done or that can be done for our country, the greatest is that of educating the body, the mind, and above all the character, giving spiritual and moral training to those who in a few years are themselves to decide…

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.

I appreciate to the full all the difficulties under which you labor, and I think that your progress has been astonishing.

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.