Teddy Roosevelt

A glorious memory is the best of all things for a nation, if the purpose of that nation is to try to rise level with that memory.

Let us so live that these children when they grow up shall feel equally proud of the country we leave to them.

The easiest way to raise any of us is to raise all of us, and if you de press any of us, as sure as fate all of us will more or less feel the effects of that depression.

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

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

You will soon be part of one of the great States of the Union (for surely we will see Oklahoma and the Indian Territory admitted to Statehood), and when that takes place you will be at the outset a great State.

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

But all of that will not avail if you don't have the right type of men and women in the State.

My regiment was raised under the walls of that historic building of which it was said that Thermopylæ had its messenger of death, but the Alamo had none.

I am especially glad to greet the children.

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.

All that he can promise is that so far as in him lies he will do his part toward making them right.

You can have no idea what a pleasure it is to me to be here again.

We have a right to say that this is a pretty big country, because it is.

If he will do something that is not exactly straight for your advantage, he will do it quicker for his own advantage.

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.

If a man is to be an advantage to the community in which he lives he must be a decent, square dealing man, who does fairly by his neighbor and takes care of his family.

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.

You have a wonderful climate.

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

I want to congratulate you upon the type of men you have got, and upon the quantity and quality of your children.

You have got to work, and work hard.

Nobody can make a good State except you yourselves.

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.