During the seven years that have just passed there is no duty, domestic or foreign, which we have shirked; no necessary task which we have feared to undertake, or which we have not performed with reasonable efficiency.
Roosevelt reflects on the accomplishments of his administration over the past seven years, emphasizing diligence.
Share
More from Teddy Roosevelt
I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as examples for the future.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by an Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, 'An Act Making appropriations…
Other voices in this conversation
