Teddy Roosevelt

The conditions shown by even this short inspection to exist in the Chicago stock yards are revolting.

If inspection of meat food products at all stages of preparation is not secured by the passage of the legislation recommended I shall feel compelled to order that inspection labels and certificates on canned products shall not be used…

It is imperatively necessary in the interest of health and of decency that they should be radically changed.

Under existing law the National Government has no power to enforce inspection of the many forms of prepared meat food products.

Under the existing law it is wholly impossible to secure satisfactory results.

Done at the City of Washington this 2nd day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and six, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and thirtieth.

By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation Whereas,

Leadership is necessary in order that we may get really good results out of a high average of individual character.

No other men deserve so well of this country as those to whom we owe it that we now have a country.

Such a record should make every true American proud of the Army and the Navy.

We can not too highly honor the memory of the leaders in the Civil War.

This day is hallowed and sacred in our history.

He must be able to handle himself and to handle the formidable and delicate mechanism intrusted to his care.

The first duty of a leader, civil or military, is to lead; and he must lead well.

Every man who has served well and faithfully, afloat or ashore, in the service of the United States, has shown that he possesses certain qualities which entitle him in a peculiar degree to the respect of all his fellow-citizens.

It is right and proper that the man in a high position should receive a marked degree of credit if he performs his difficult, delicate, and responsible task well.

There rests upon each of you a tremendous burden of responsibility, and therefore to you belongs the proud privilege of bearing that load of responsibility well.

Moreover, it is a peculiar pleasure to speak today under the auspices of the Army and Navy Union.

Nothing is cheaper than to say that the people are all right but that the politicians are all wrong.

Each applicant who shows himself duly qualified will be registered and given a nontransferable certificate to that effect, which will entitle him to go upon and examine the lands to be opened hereunder.

By virtue of the power vested in me by the said act of Congress, do hereby declare and make known that all of the unallotted lands in said reservation... will, on and after the sixteenth day of July, nineteen hundred and six, in the manner…

It is highly desirable that an element of competition should be introduced by the passage of some such law as that which has already passed the House, putting alcohol used in the arts and manufactures upon the free list.

This three-quarters of a million represents the profit that the Standard Oil Company obtains at the expense of the railroads; but of course the ultimate result is that it obtains a much larger profit at the expense of the public.

The hands of the Government have been greatly strengthened in securing an effective remedy by the recent decision of the Supreme Court.

The time has come when no oil or coal lands held by the Government, either upon the public domain proper or in territory owned by the Indian tribes, should be alienated.