Year by year this Nation grows in strength and worldly power.

Let us, therefore, as a people set our faces resolutely against evil.

The growth in wealth and population has surpassed even the growth in territory.

Nowhere else in the world is the average of individual comfort and material well-being as high as in our fortunate land.

That life is wasted, and worse than wasted, which is spent in piling, heap upon heap, those things which minister merely to the pleasure of the body and to the power that rests only on wealth.

Strive with all the strength that is given us for righteousness in public and in private life.

In the nation as in the individual, in the long run it is character that counts.

Envelopes showing, on the outside, distinctive marks of any character, indicating the name of the person whose application is inclosed therein, shall be eliminated from the drawing.

By virtue of the power and authority vested in me by said Act of Congress, do hereby prescribe, proclaim and make known that all of said lands which shall remain unallotted to Indians, unselected by said state and unreserved for townsites…

Any person who is qualified to make a homestead entry may, between 9:00 o'clock a. m., on Monday, October 5, and 4:30 o'clock p. m., on Saturday, October 17, 1908, and not thereafter, present to James W. Witten, Superintendent of the…

Whereas, the Government of the Netherlands has entered into a Commercial Agreement with the United States in conformity with the provisions of the third section of the Tariff Act of the United States, approved July 24, 1891, by which…

Therefore, be it known that I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority conferred by said Act of Congress, do hereby suspend during the continuance in force of said Agreement the imposition…

In his death, the Nation has been deprived of one of its greatest citizens.

I do hereby direct that the flags on the White House and the several departmental buildings be displayed at half-staff for a period of thirty days; and that suitable military and naval honors, under the orders of the Secretaries of War and…

I advocate that the United States build a navy commensurate with its powers and its needs, because I feel that such a navy will be the surest guaranty and safeguard of peace.

We are not a military nation.

The United States can hope for a permanent career of peace on only one condition, and that is, on condition of building and maintaining a first-class navy.

To carry out this policy is but to act in the spirit of George Washington.