"Probably never before in our history has the country been more prosperous than it is at this moment;"
"You cannot put a stop to or reverse the industrial tendencies of the age, but you can control and regulate them and see that they do no harm."
"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..."
"The quality of honesty, the quality of courage, and the quality of common sense."
"It was a pleasure to shake hands with Father Boyle."
"The man who only talks of his rights and not of his duties is not a good citizen."
"It is a pleasure to be with you today."
"It always irritates me to see any member of a National Guard armed with a black powder musket."
"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."
"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."
"A man to be a good American must be straight, and he must also be strong."
"Brotherhood, fundamentally, means treating each man at his worth as a man."
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
"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 fierce..."
"I thank you most warmly for the greeting you have extended to me this evening."
