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 always irritates me to see any member of a National Guard armed with a black powder musket.

It is a pleasure to be with you today.

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

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

It was a pleasure to shake hands with Father Boyle.

I thank you from my heart for your greeting.

We are not afraid to expand now.

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

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

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

Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only;

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

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.

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

The law must get at the big man who goes wrong just as it gets at the small man who goes wrong.

Each man of you who looks back on his life will feel proud to hand to his children, not the memory of the days of ease, but the days that were pretty hard, that meant hard work, but wherein he did something.

I thank you most warmly for the greeting you have extended to me this evening.