Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

It is a matter of real regret to me that I can not attend formally your celebration.

to no element do we owe more than we owe to that element represented by those whom I have the honor this day of addressing.

He holds that he is bound, not merely by treaty obligations, but by the interests of civilization, to see that the peaceable traffic of the ...

If ever there lived a President who during his term of service needed all of the consolation and of the strength that he could draw from the...