It is a poor thing for a nation if it uses the memory of the past to excuse it for inaction or failure in the present.

But all of that will not avail if you don't have the right type of men and women in the State.

It was the greatest war of the century, and it left behind the most perfect peace of the century.

I earnestly hope that as you enter Statehood you will realize the immense responsibility that rests upon you.

You will soon be part of one of the great States of the Union (for surely we will see Oklahoma and the Indian Territory admitted to Statehood), and when that takes place you will be at the outset a great State.

It cannot but be pleasant to any President to have the chance of going through the country and meeting his fellow country men and being greeted as you have greeted me.

They have left us a legacy not only of how to do our duty in war, but in peace.

Let us of the younger generation try to keep up their standard.

I am glad to see you all—the men, the women, and the children.

I am delighted to be in this great and beautiful State today,

There is not any thing very difficult in government.

I think the American stock is a middling good one, and I do not want to see it die out.

Teach them not to shirk difficulties; but to overcome them.

down at bottom, east or west, north or south, wherever you meet the average American, he is a pretty good American.

The man who is a decent man will be a decent husband, a decent father, a decent neighbor, and in public life he will do the right thing.

I am very glad to have the pleasure of seeing you and saying a word of greeting to you.

I do hereby invite all the nations of the earth to take part in the commemoration of an event which has had a far reaching effect upon the course of human history.

it appears that the public good would be promoted by releasing and excluding certain lands from the said forest reserve