Teddy Roosevelt

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

You need just the qualities in government that you need in private life.

I cannot say what pleasure it is to me to be today in the Indian Territory, which I earnestly hope will soon be a part of a great State of our Union.

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

I will just bid you good-morning.

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.

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

Right fully, we take the most intense pride in our country.

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.

It is that every man, from the President right through, has got to do if our country is to be what it should be.

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.

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.

If the average citizen does his duty, you will have a good State, and you will not otherwise.

You cannot afford to let any man represent you in public life if he is crooked.

Then it will lie with you to see what kind of a State you make of it.

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

I believe you are paying heed to the education of the young people, of these girls and boys that I see before me, who in ten or fifteen years will be running things.

Teach them not to shirk difficulties; but to overcome them.

I think the American stock is a middling good one, and I do not want to see it die out.

They have left us a legacy not only of how to do our duty in war, but in peace.

I am very glad to have the pleasure of seeing you and saying a word of greeting to you.

There is not any thing very difficult in government.

I am delighted to be in this great and beautiful State today,

Let us of the younger generation try to keep up their standard.