Teddy Roosevelt: “I stand for the square deal.”

The American people by a great plurality have conferred upon you the highest honor in their gift.

If you will steal for me you will steal from me.

Therefore I hope that so far as possible the people may be given the chance, through direct primaries, to express their preference as to who shall be the nominee of the Republican Presidential Convention.

Every special interest is entitled to justice—full, fair, and complete—and, now, mind you, if there were any attempt by mob-violence to plunder and work harm to the special interest, whatever it may be, that I most dislike, and the wealthy…