Fundamentally, it ought to be based on just about the principle that ought to govern each private individual citizen in dealing with his fellow, on the principle of trying to act squarely by every other nation, and of exacting square treatment in return.
Remarks at the Banquet of the New York Press Club in New York City
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Each of these children represents either a potential addition to the productive capacity and the enlightened citizenship of the nation, or, if allowed to suffer from neglect, a potential addition to the destructive forces of the community.
Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress, do proclaim that the said lands are hereby added to the Trinity National Forest
The interests of the nation are involved in the welfare of this army of children no less than in our great material affairs.
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