Theodore Roosevelt said...

The noncompetitive examination in a case like this is not only vicious, but is in effect a fraud upon the public.

The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary...

By virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, ent...

I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested... do proclaim tha...