I think I know that that is what you, in your hearts, want me to do.

This session of the Congress has been the most productive and the most constructive in all American history.

For so long as there has been an America, there have been times when factions have risen up in our land.

Our strength is our surest shelter against war.

I would rather be 3 hours late because people wanted to see me than to be 3 hours early because there was nobody there.

In the American character there are those qualities of prudence and progress.

It is by our deeds and not by our words that we lead the rest of the world in the cause of freedom.

And as long as I am your President, your Government is going to devote full energy in developing all of these resources, and one of them that we are now developing is the Arkansas River.

We cannot meet that challenge by looking backward.

We don't want our American boys to do the fighting for Asian boys.

You are lucky enough and you are fortunate enough and you are blessed enough today to live in the most powerful nation in all the world.

So a system of public education, every dollar invested in education today, brings a return of 10 to 12 percent in national wealth, and that is a pretty good return on a dollar invested--10 to 12 percent.

I have devoted much of my 30 years of public career to the conservation of America's natural resources.

It does not mean that we are going to have a labor Government.

I am proud of America, and I am proud of Oklahoma, and I am proud of you.

Tonight we strive for peace, peace in the world through armed strength and through human understanding, through the United Nations and through God's own rule of doing unto others as you would have them do unto you.

I want to say on behalf of all the people of this Nation that we, the people of the United States, are deeply in the debt of the people of Oklahoma for the quality of the men that they send to the United States Congress.

And I think that you know in your heart that that is right.