I am especially glad to greet the children.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

I believe you are getting that type.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

I am glad to see you all—the men, the women, and the children.

The man who is a decent man will be a decent husband, a decent father, a decent neighbor, and in public life he will do the right thing.

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

down at bottom, east or west, north or south, wherever you meet the average American, he is a pretty good American.

It cannot but be pleasant to any President to have the chance of going through the country and meeting his fellow country men and being greeted as you have greeted me.

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