You have got to work, and work hard.

Statehood is a first class thing, if you use it right.

It is only a few weeks since that I did my part in helping in the growth here when I signed the bill under which the Trinity River will be improved.

I have never had the good fortune to be in the Territory before; but I had the great good fortune to have some of your sons in my regiment; and better and braver men never rode a horse or handled a rifle.

Nobody can make a good State except you yourselves.

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.

If you are half as glad to have me as I am to be here we will call it square.

It was the greatest war of the century, and it left behind the most perfect peace of the century.

You have a wonderful climate.

I do not want to preach, but I do want to say just a word or two to make you understand the responsibility that rests upon you.

All day long I have been traveling through your beautiful Territory, a Territory that very soon, I not only hope but earnestly believe, will be a part of a great State in the Union.

I will just bid you good-morning.

Successful self-government, of course, must be based upon the average quality of the citizenship.

All that he could do in that war was to do his part well, to do all that lay in him well.

I earnestly hope that as you enter Statehood you will realize the immense responsibility that rests upon you.

It was from Caddo that very many members of my own old regiment came, and you can hardly imagine what a pleasure it is to me to be here to-day to see you.

The thing to do is each day to do that day's work.

I am particularly glad to greet everywhere I have been today so many school children.

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 admire the men and women of Texas, and I am glad to see the children of the right quantity and quality.

I shall go away a stronger and a better American for having been in this mighty Commonwealth of Texas.

I need not tell you that what really counts in any State is the character of the men and women who make up that State.

I was mighty glad to do it, for I think that we Americans have learned the lesson that whatever is good for some of us is good for all of us.

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

I can, in a sense, claim to be, by blood, at least, a typical President, for I am half Southerner, half Northerner.