There can in what we do be no thought of aggression or of selfish aggrandizement.

We seek to maintain the dignity and authority of the United States only because we wish always to keep our great influence unimpaired for the uses of liberty, both in the United States and wherever else it may be employed for the benefit…

I therefore come to ask your approval that I should use the armed forces of the United States in such ways and to such an extent as may be necessary to obtain from General Huerta and his adherents the fullest recognition of the rights and…

No communication I have addressed to the Congress carried with it graver or more far-reaching implications as to the interest of the country.

We are too big, too powerful, too self-respecting a nation to interpret with a too strained or refined reading the words of our own promises.

I have come to ask you for the repeal of that provision of the Panama Canal Act of August 24, 1912, which exempts vessels engaged in the coastwise trade of the United States from payment of tolls.

as the conditions on which the Proclamation of March 14, 1912, was based have essentially changed, and as it is desirable to place the United States with reference to the exportation of arms or munitions of war to Mexico in the same…

the fate of the leader for the time being is of little consequence, but the cause itself must in the end triumph, for its triumph is essential to the well-being of the American people.

Like all other good citizens, I accept the result with entire good humor and contentment.

The American people by a great plurality have conferred upon you the highest honor in their gift.

I congratulate you thereon.

I wish to say that the Progressive Party is making its appeal to all our fellow citizens without any regard to their creed or to their birthplace.

I am all right and you cannot escape listening to the speech either.

I am absorbed in the success of that movement.

It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.

I want every labor man, every labor leader, every organized union man, to take the lead in denouncing crime or violence.

He was a coward.

I don’t know anything about who the man was who shot me to-night.