Teddy Roosevelt

I follow your career with the greatest possible interest.

Let me say one word of special greeting to the veterans of the Grand Army.

I am particularly pleased to see you all here.

I have come to Colorado this time on a holiday.

I believe that about all that is necessary is to get one American to know another to have them get on well in government.

The thing they can do that will please me best is to let me be on that hunt alone, and pay no earthly attention to me, or to any of my party, while I am off in the mountains.

I cannot say what a pleasure it is to be back with you again.

It has been to me the greatest pleasure to go through this great State.

When I get out here and see the big plains, it makes me feel as if I were at home again.

You do not know what a pleasure it is to me to get out into this Western country.

Let me say how glad I am to see the school children's faces.

Also I want to say that I appreciate to the limit the kindness with which I have been treated in Texas.

It is a great pleasure to me to be back in New Mexico and to pass through Clayton.

There is not any remarkable genius or remarkable brilliancy needed; what is needed in governing ourselves is the exercise of just exactly the same qualities that make a man a decent neighbor, a decent husband, a decent father.

Now, I am going to make a request of the people of Colorado.

I believe more in children than I do in irrigation and you know I am all right on irrigation.

We need in public life, as we need in private life, the same qualities that have been needed since history began.

I have liked my job.

Give the red man the same chance as the white.

I do not feel that I have to explain my policies to the Oklahoma people.

There is nowhere I feel more at home than in a town like this.

Good-by, and good luck.

I greet the veterans of the Civil War who came here today to greet the President, because we are one people and one country, and not to be divided forever.

Give me a fair show to have as much fun as even a President is entitled to have.

We want our rights, not as a favor, but as a right.