"We need good laws, we need honest and upright administration of the laws, but we need as the fundamental prerequisite for good government a high average standard of good citizenship in the men who mak..."
"We must have the manly virtue deeply imbedded as part of our national characteristics if we are to do our work aright in peace or in war."
"I needed no pressing to accept the invitation."
"In raising my own regiment, I found that there was no group of our citizens from whom better men could be drawn."
"We can succeed permanently only upon the basis of standing shoulder to shoulder, working in association, by organization, each working for all."
"You have to have the stuff in you."
"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."
"We should have, under such circumstances, one sovereign to whom the big corporations should be responsible."
"Probably never before in our history has the country been more prosperous than it is at this moment;"
"When all things flourish it means that there is a good chance for things that we don't like to flourish also, just exactly as things that we do like."
"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 man who only talks of his rights and not of his duties is not a good citizen."
"It was a pleasure to shake hands with Father Boyle."
"The quality of honesty, the quality of courage, and the quality of common sense."
"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."
