I thank you for your congratulations.

On the Fourth of March next I shall have served three and one-half years, and this three and one-half years constitutes my first term.

I am deeply sensible of the honor done me by the American people in thus expressing their confidence in what I have done and have tried to do.

Under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept another nomination.

I appreciate in the full the solemn responsibility this confidence imposes upon me, and I shall do all that in my power lies not to forfeit it.

The wise custom which limits the President to two terms regards the substance and not the form.

Reward has waited upon honest effort.

We are thankful for all that has been done for us in the past, and we pray that in the future we may be strengthened in the unending struggle to do our duty fearlessly and honestly.

Never has there been a time when religious and charitable effort has been more evident.

We have been enabled to do our duty to ourselves and to others.

Our success will mean much not only for ourselves, but for the future of all mankind;

I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section ten of said act of Congress, do hereby declare and make known that said lot one in block forty-eight of said Woodward Townsite is hereby…

I thank you for very kind allusions to what the Government of the United States has accomplished for the policies you have at heart.

At an early date I shall issue the call for the conference you request.

I greet you with profound pleasure as representatives in a special sense of the great international movement for peace and good will among the nations of the earth.

Nothing in this world comes to people who will not work.

Nothing worth having comes to those who do not or are not willing to make an effort to get it.

I wish to greet you with all my heart here at the national capital.