I also inspected the receiving hospitals in various settlements.
I found the conditions perfect.
Every effort is being made to secure not only the benefits of elementary education to all the Porto Ricans of the next g...
I earnestly hope that this body will be kept permanent.
I earnestly hope that immediate provision will be made for dredging San Juan harbor.
In conclusion let me express my admiration for the work done by the Congress.
The governor and council are co-operating with all of the most enlightened and most patriotic of the people of Porto Ric...
It has not been easy to instill into the minds of the people unaccustomed to the exercise of freedom.
Last year was the most prosperous year that the island has ever known, before or since the American occupation.
I most earnestly hope that this will be done.
We have just cause for pride in the character of our representatives who have administered the tropic islands.
We should be both reverently thankful for what we have received, and earnestly bent upon turning it into a means of grac...
Upon our material well-being must be built a superstructure of individual and national life in accordance with the laws ...
Never before in our history or in the history of any other nation has a people enjoyed more abounding material prosperit...
Material well-being, indispensable though it is, can never be anything but the foundation of true national greatness and...
by virtue of the power in me vested by said Act of Congress and by virtue of said agreement, do hereby declare, proclaim...
I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the said Act of...
I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested, do hereby declare and make k...
