The reward of the consciousness of duty well done.

We cannot turn back the wheels of progress.

Character, that compound of honesty and courage and common sense, will avail us more in the long run than any brilliancy on the stump or any advising legislative means and methods.

The great deeds of those that have gone before us must ever serve not as a reason for inaction on our part, but as the keenest of spurs to drive us forward on the path of national greatness and justice.

The insurrection against the authority and sovereignty of the United States is now at an end, and peace has been established in all parts of the archipelago except in the country inhabited by the Moro tribes, to which this proclamation…

We showed in the Revolution that we had a right to be free; we showed when we constructed the more perfect union of the old Confederacy that we knew how to use that right as it needed to be used.

Words are good if they are backed up by deeds, and only so.

It is no easy task to deal with great industrial tendencies.

We said Cuba should become a free republic, and we have kept our word.

it is deemed to be wise and humane, in accordance with the beneficent purposes of the government of the United States toward the Filipino people, and conducive to peace, order and loyalty among them, that the doers of such acts who have…

Justice which means that each man, rich or poor, big or small, strong or weak, shall have his rights, and shall not be allowed to do wrong to his fellows.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by section 4228 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, do hereby declare and proclaim that, from and after the date of this, my Proclamation, so long as vessels of the United States and their…

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Santa Catalina Forest Reserve.

I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, do hereby declare and proclaim the aforesaid provision of law to the end that it may definitely and formally be known that such international exhibition will be opened in the city of…

This reservation shall hereafter be known as The White River Forest Reserve.

It has been my good fortune to see them in a campaign bearing themselves well and honorably.

And more than that, remember that the army has conquered not to bring military rule.

They are the real thing.