"There is nothing better for the United States than EDUCATED
CITIZENSHIP; and, my young friends, there never was a time in all our
history when knowledge was so essential to success as now. Everything
requires knowledge. What we want of the young people now is exact
knowledge. You want to know whatever you undertake to do a little
better than anybody else. And if you will do that, then there is
nothing that is not within your reach.
And what you want besides education is CHARACTER--CHARACTER! There is
nothing that will serve a young man or an old man so well as good
character. And did you ever think that it is just as easy to form a
good habit as it is to form a bad one; and it is just as hard to break
a good habit as it is to break a bad one? So get the good ones and
keep them. With EDUCATION and CHARACTER you will not only achieve
individual success, but you will contribute largely to the progress of
your country."