
Probably never before in our history has the country been more prosperous than it is at this moment;
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Probably never before in our history has the country been more prosperous than it is at this moment;

When all things flourish it means that there is a good chance for things that we don't like to flourish also, just exactly as things that we do like.

We should have, under such circumstances, one sovereign to whom the big corporations should be responsible.

You cannot put a stop to or reverse the industrial tendencies of the age, but you can control and regulate them and see that they do no harm.

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section six of said act of Congress of June 6, 1900, do hereby declare and make known that said land is hereby restored to the public domain, to be disposed of to said city for cemetery purposes under said act of Congress approved September 30, 1890.

It was a pleasure to shake hands with Father Boyle.

The man who only talks of his rights and not of his duties is not a good citizen.

It is a pleasure to be with you today.

It always irritates me to see any member of a National Guard armed with a black powder musket.

The quality of honesty, the quality of courage, and the quality of common sense.

I thank you from my heart for your greeting.

Education in the schools is one thing, but it is not a substitute for education at home.

If a man is not decent, is not square and honest, then the possession of ability only serves to render him more dangerous to the community; as a wild beast grows more dangerous the stronger and fiercer he is.

We shall make our government a success if we shall measure each man by the standard of his worth as a man.

Brotherhood, fundamentally, means treating each man at his worth as a man.

A man to be a good American must be straight, and he must also be strong.

Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only;