If you are half as glad to have me as I am to be here we will call it square.
All I need say today of them in speaking to you of the great war, is that we tried in the little war to show that we had...
I admire the men and women of Texas, and I am glad to see the children of the right quantity and quality.
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 tha...
I believe you are paying heed to the education of the young people, of these girls and boys that I see before me, who in...
If the average citizen does his duty, you will have a good State, and you will not otherwise.
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 ...
If your citizens act as well in peace as those of them I knew in war, it will be a mighty good State.
It will be a mighty poor thing, if you don't.
Let us so live that these children when they grow up shall feel equally proud of the country we leave to them.
I shall go away a stronger and a better American for having been in this mighty Commonwealth of Texas.
You will soon be part of one of the great States of the Union (for surely we will see Oklahoma and the Indian Territory ...
I earnestly hope that as you enter Statehood you will realize the immense responsibility that rests upon you.
It was the greatest war of the century, and it left behind the most perfect peace of the century.
But all of that will not avail if you don't have the right type of men and women in the State.
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.
We have a right to say that this is a pretty big country, because it is.
It was from Caddo that very many members of my own old regiment came, and you can hardly imagine what a pleasure it is t...
