I don't misconstrue it, but I know that Californians are loyal to the backbone and they are glad to welcome to the borders of their great State the representative of the Nation of which they are proud to be a part.

It will certainly be completed by the 1st of January 1915.

We haven't any Englishmen and we haven't any Irishmen... we only have Americans.

The Panama Canal is of course the greatest enterprise of a constructive character which has been entered upon for centuries.

I am delighted to improve them.

It is a great pleasure for me to revisit your beautiful city.

There is nothing that an American can not achieve and can not overcome.

I have attended many banquets.

I do not ask your gratitude on that account.

We talk about liberty as something to be secured as an end.

Liberty is a means in the pursuit of happiness.

He who conquers himself is greater than he who taketh a city.

Popular government we have because we believe in the long run that it is the best government.

We are more to be credited than he that taketh a city.

The people rule, there is no doubt about that, but they rule according to law and under the Constitution.

I do not know how you have done it.

Congress has been derelict.

We are digging out of it three millions of cubic yards a month.

And I am going to come again when I can.

But one of the great advantages of your city is that you do not have to stay long to like it well.

We must preserve them in such a way and with such a knowledge of forestry and the reproduction of the timber as shall permit us to enjoy all the timber that ought to be cut and to leave that which shall insure a constant reforestation of…

I shall feel deeply this expression of your good fellowship.

It has made me much more alive to the immense importance of the conservation of our natural resources, especially of the importance of dealing properly with our arid lands.

I know, because there was a time when I had some responsibility connected with it.

We must, therefore, if we would still retain agricultural control of the world, take some steps to avail ourselves of those great stretches of what seem now to be arid and desert lands, but which, by the application of water, when the…