to no element do we owe more than we owe to that element represented by those whom I have the honor this day of addressing.

It is a matter of real regret to me that I can not attend formally your celebration.

I have the right to challenge the best effort of every American worthy of the name to putting down by every means in his power corruption in private life, and above all corruption in public life.

I hope sincerely that a century hence it will seem equally incredible to the American of that generation that there should be corruption and venality in public life.

The people of Panama having by an apparently unanimous movement dissolved their political connection with the Republic of Colombia and resumed their independence.

He holds that he is bound, not merely by treaty obligations, but by the interests of civilization, to see that the peaceable traffic of the world across the Isthmus of Panama shall not longer be disturbed by a constant succession of…

I have not willingly planted a thorn in the breast of any man.

If ever there lived a President who during his term of service needed all of the consolation and of the strength that he could draw from the unseen powers above him, it was Abraham Lincoln.

A failure to enact such legislation would come perilously near a repudiation of the pledged faith of the Nation.

By the treaty a large Cuban market is secured to our producers.

This convention shall not take effect until the same shall have been approved by the Congress.

It is in the interest of our people as a whole.

During the last year the Lord has dealt bountifully with us, giving us peace at home and abroad and the chance for our citizens to work for their welfare unhindered by war, famine or plague.

In no other place and at no other time has the experiment of government of the people, by the people, for the people, been tried on so vast a scale as here in our own country in the opening years of the 20th Century.

I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, do hereby designate as a day of general thanksgiving Thursday, the twenty-sixth of the coming November.

We being ready both in body and soul may cheerfully accomplish those things which thou commandest.

Thou shalt serve the Lord with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and in all thy mind.

Be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves.