Special Message
12/06/1903
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...
Next only to a man's having worn the blue comes the fact of the man's having worn the gray to entitle him to honor in my sight.
When I am through my present trip I will have been in and spoken in every State in the Union during my term as President.
Self-government is not too easy a thing.
Our aim must be to deal justice to each man; no more and no less.