No people more than the Texans have rendered it impossible for this country to be anything but great.

It is not open to us to choose whether we shall play a small part or a great part.

All that we can decide is whether we shall play it well or ill; and I know too well, oh, my fellow-countrymen, not to know what your decision will be.

But the spirit in which those problems must be faced is forever the same.

Nowadays men must fight with different weapons; men must fight with different tactics; but the spirit in which they must fight if they are to win must be the spirit that sustained you alike in triumph and defeat.

The outward problem changes, the outward means of solving that problem changes, but the heart of the man who is to solve it can not be changed.

I want you men of Texas, you men of my age, to see to it that exactly as you lift your heads higher because of what your fathers have done, so your children have the right to hold their heads higher because of the way in which you handle…

Keep it before yourselves ever that the very fact that you are proud of those who have gone before makes it incumbent upon you to leave a heritage of honor to those who are to come after you, and to train up those who are to come after you…

Do not forget that besides the training of the school must come the training in the family.

Remember always that this life is certain to contain much that is hard, much that is unpleasant.

It is not a kindness to the children, it is a curse, if you train them so that they can not meet any need that arises.

I do not believe that we ought ever to try to delude ourselves with the thought that we can make life easy, effortless, and yet keep it worth having.

For a nation as for an individual the life is the life of effort.

You have made this great State of Texas what it is because your forefathers had in them the spirit which recognized in a difficulty something not to be flinched from, but to be overcome.

It is our unity, not our divergency, that is the great fundamental fact of our national life.

I think I was a middling good American before I came here, but I go away an even better one.

No man is fit to hold the position of President of the United States at all unless as President he feels that he represents no party but the people as a whole.

So far as in me lies I have tried and shall try so to handle myself that every decent American citizen can feel that I have at least made the effort.

Each man has got to carry out his own principles in his own way.

If he tries to model himself on some one else he will make a poor show of it.

My own view has been that if I must choose between taking risks by not doing a thing or by doing it, I will take the risks of doing it.

Especially as regards what was done in Panama, I want to say that while I was most anxious to deserve the approval of my countrymen, and while I was very glad to be elected President, I would without one moment’s hesitation have given up…

When I say I believe in a square deal I do not mean, and nobody who speaks the truth can mean, that he believes it possible to give every man the best hand.

If the cards do not come to any man, or if they do come, and he has not got the power to play them, that is his affair.

In other words, it is not in the power of any human being to devise legislation or administration by which each man shall achieve success and have happiness; it not only is not in the power of any man to do that, but if any man says that…