Teddy Roosevelt: “I want a general scheme, but also a way to make that general scheme effective in each department, each bureau, each…”

the fate of the leader for the time being is of little consequence, but the cause itself must in the end triumph, for its triumph is essential to the well-being of the American people.

France is one of these nations. For her to sink would be a loss to all the world.

I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as examples for the future.

Our country—this great Republic—means nothing unless it means the triumph of a real democracy, the triumph of popular government, and, in the long run, of an economic system under which each man shall be guaranteed the opportunity to show…