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

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

You do not think I should be quiet while the American people are being held up.

When I became President, one of the first things to which I devoted my attention was to try to bring about a fuller plan of irrigation, for the reclamation of agricultural lands in the semi-arid regions.

The welfare of the great Western country, and that means in its essence the welfare of the United States as a whole, depends upon the encouragement given to the homemaker.

I want to congratulate you on the enterprise and forethought you have shown in your irrigation scheme here.

We can succeed only by seeing to it that the children, the boys and the girls, who in ten or fifteen or twenty years will be the men and women who will then control affairs, are so trained that they can do their part well in the work of…

The cause of free government throughout this land would be shaken to its foundation if we fail here.

What you have done is not only of very great importance to this community, but it is of the utmost importance by way of example to all of our Western people.

We are bound to make a success of it, not for our sakes, but for the sake of mankind.

We are trying here in America on the largest and most complete scale that it has been tried, the experiment of having a free people govern itself by itself and for itself.

My admiration for Texas and Texans is no new thing.

The worthy life for the nation for the individual, for the man and for the woman, is the life of effort for the things worth striving for.

It has always seemed to me that one of the greatest lessons taught by the Civil War was the lesson of brotherhood.

I wish to express my acknowledgments for the greeting which I have received here in San Antonio, and which I have received throughout the length and breadth of Texas.

I am going to tell you just one anecdote of Gen. Young.

We all believe in the Monroe Doctrine.

You can hardly imagine how much it means to me to come back to San Antonio in this way and to be received as you have received me.

Now, apply that in civil life.

All right; I will have a cavalry brigade and if you come with me I will guarantee that you shall see the fighting.

My fellow-citizens, infinitely more important than any President, infinitely more important even than the reception to any President, is what is symbolized by seeing the men who fought in the Union army and the men who fought in the…

Infinitely more important than any President, infinitely more important even than the reception to any President, is what is symbolized by seeing the men who fought in the Union army and the men who fought in the Confederate army standing…

If a man can not govern himself he will find a boss or some one else who can govern him; and then don't blame the boss—blame yourself for not having the self-control, the resolution, the forethought and the sense of civic duty which would…

There is no power that can be given to the representatives of the people which it is not possible to abuse.

No President of the United States, no good American, proud of his country, could enter this capitol and stand in this hall without feeling a certain thrill of pride in his citizenship, and in the history of the country's past.