Teddy Roosevelt: “Moreover, for the United States to take such a position offers the only possible way of ensuring us against a clash with…”

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…

I congratulate you thereon.

I absolutely agree with you that this matter is not one to be decided with any reference to the personal preferences or interests of any man, but purely from the standpoint of the interests of the people as a whole.

We must drive the special interests out of politics.