Teddy Roosevelt

I wish to thank you most heartily for what you did.

Train yourselves specially in some one direction to do some bit of technical work better than it can be done by any one who has not had your training.

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…

It is eminently fitting that so great a State should have so fine a capitol.

It is a great pleasure to see you.

Fundamentally, our attitude in our foreign affairs and in reference to foreign nations, must, in the long run, if we are to be successful as a people, be based upon certain common sense rules of conduct; the identical rules upon which…

No State can be great without paying the penalty of responsibility that comes with greatness.

My fellow-citizens, my fellow-Americans, I address you here under the shadow of your beautiful capitol of this great and wonderful State with its heroic memories of Austin, of Sam Houston, of Davy Crockett, of all the men who, in picture…

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

If the average man keeps his head and his wits, and if he takes a little pains, he will not be governed that way.

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.

I want to congratulate you upon the excellent law for the administration of the National Guard that has been passed by the Texas legislature.

You must show that you have in you the right stuff and what your college education has done for you is not to make you feel excused from effort, but to give you the ability to use your effort to greater advantage than you could otherwise…

Most emphatically we cannot, as good Americans, bear hostility to any rich man as such any more than to any poor man as such.

Remember that there is only one way in which the ordinary college graduate can benefit his alma mater.

I cannot sufficiently thank you for the way you have greeted me today.

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 some of the spirit that the men had who fought in the great Civil War.

The Civil War has left you as a heritage of honor not merely the memory of mighty deeds done in it.

I want to say how deeply touched I am by the reception accorded me.

I want you to remember now that you are on the verge of Statehood, that whether you can feel proud or not of your State in the future is going to depend upon the citizenship of the average man and average woman.

I believe you are getting that type.

If your citizens act as well in peace as those of them I knew in war, it will be a mighty good State.

We are proud now of what our fathers did in the days that tried men's souls.

It will be a mighty poor thing, if you don't.