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…

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.

It was a pleasure to shake hands with Father Boyle.

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

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

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

We are not afraid to expand now.

I thank you from my heart for your greeting.

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.

Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only;

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

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

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

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

Here in America we pride ourselves on our liberty under the law—a very different thing from lawlessness.

You have got to have— you of the Civil War, you fought with widely different weapons and widely different tactics from the men who were with Ethan Allen.

The best is none too good for this Republic.