All I needed was permission.
The scientific man who is really a first-class scientific man has a claim upon the gratitude of all the country.
It will not be a failure.
The chance to do good work is the greatest chance that can come to any man or any woman in our generation or in any othe...
Thrice fortunate are you to whom it is given to lead lives of resolute endeavor for the achievement of lofty ideals.
The chief harm done by the men of swollen fortune to the community is not the harm that the demagogue is apt to depict a...
I do not in the least underestimate the need of having material prosperity as the basis of our civilization.
If you did not do your work well this Republic would not endure beyond the span of the generation.
Venomous envy of wealth is simply another form of the spirit which in one of its manifestations takes the shape of cring...
Even when we hear so much criticism of certain aspects of our public life and of certain of our public servants, critici...
To furnish in your lives such a realized high ideal is to do a great service to the country.
You teachers make the whole world your debtor.
It is absolutely necessary to earn a certain amount of money.
and finally he crowned his life work by serving as Secretary of State with such farsighted reading of the future and suc...
His death, a crushing sorrow to his friends, is to the people of this country a national bereavement; and it is in addit...
He entered the public service as the trusted and intimate companion of Abraham Lincoln, and for well-nigh forty-five yea...
Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do declare and proclaim that the first...
Done at the request of Secretary Hay, who says she is now the best clerk of her class that he has.