I would be ashamed of you if you were not.

It is a great pleasure to have the chance of saying a word or two to you this morning.

The eastern part of Colorado, which fifteen years ago was considered as only a country for sage brush and jack rabbits, has now come up so that it has relatively as great a future as any other part of the state.

I cannot say how much impressed I am as I travel through your great State.

I have enjoyed it to the full.

the thing that counts, of course, is the character of the average citizen, and that is what gives me my supreme faith in the future.

I believe in this people with all my heart and soul.

In my judgment, it is absolutely necessary that the nation, for the State cannot possibly do it, should assume a supervisory and regulatory function over the great corporations which practically control the highways of commerce.

This state is going to be one of the places to which people from the East and West are going to come, to see your country, to enjoy it, to make it one of the holiday spots of the land.

We cannot afford in any shape or way in this country to encourage a feeling which would do injustice to a man of property any more than we would submit to injustice from a man of property.

As I say, that represents in my mind part of what should be the general policy of this country.

In life it is not only the big things that count.

You cannot command if you cannot obey.

I am in an unrepentant frame of mind.

Let me repeat. I have told you my views as to what I regard to be the most important matter of international legislation that in the immediate future will be before this people.

The character of the average man and average woman is what in the last resort determines the great ness of the State, the greatness of the nation.

I doubt if you yourselves fully realize its future, as I have said to you before.

There is such a marvelous diversification of natural features in your landscape, you are thrice fortunate in your material resources.