No State can be great without paying the penalty of responsibility that comes with greatness.
My fellow-citizens, my fellow-Americans, I address you here under the shadow of your beautiful capitol of this great and wonderful State wit...
If the average man keeps his head and his wits, and if he takes a little pains, he will not be governed that way.
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 Statehoo...
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.
Let us so live that these children when they grow up shall feel equally proud of the country we leave to them.
I need not tell you that what really counts in any State is the character of the men and women who make up that State.
It was from Caddo that very many members of my own old regiment came, and you can hardly imagine what a pleasure it is to me to be here to-d...
It will be a mighty poor thing, if you don't.
If your citizens act as well in peace as those of them I knew in war, it will be a mighty good State.
I do not want to preach, but I do want to say just a word or two to make you understand the responsibility that rests upon you.
All that he could do in that war was to do his part well, to do all that lay in him well.
It is that every man, from the President right through, has got to do if our country is to be what it should be.
Right fully, we take the most intense pride in our country.
The easiest way to raise any of us is to raise all of us, and if you de press any of us, as sure as fate all of us will more or less feel th...
A glorious memory is the best of all things for a nation, if the purpose of that nation is to try to rise level with that memory.
