Political Quotes

On the record
In the matter of railway rates, for instance, it is just as much our duty to see that they are not too low as that they are not too high.
Said by
Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt highlights the responsibility to ensure railway rates are fair, neither too low nor too high.

Share

More from Teddy Roosevelt

Oct 13, 1912

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

presidency.ucsb.edu
Feb 23, 1912

One of the chief principles for which I have stood, and for which I now stand, and which I have always endeavored and always shall endeavor to reduce to action, is the genuine rule of the people.

presidency.ucsb.edu
Aug 30, 1910

No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life.

presidency.ucsb.edu

Other voices in this conversation