Teddy Roosevelt

They are all gone away, The House is shut and still, There is nothing more to say.

Whoever has lived in country America knows the gray, empty houses from which life has gone.

In the present volume I am not sure that I understand “Luke Havergal”; but I am entirely sure that I like it.

There is in them just a little of the light that never was on land or sea, and in such light the objects described often have nebulous outlines; but it is not always necessary in order to enjoy a poem that one should be able to translate…

There is an undoubted touch of genius in the poems collected in this volume, and a curious simplicity and good faith, all of which qualities differentiate them sharply from ordinary collections of the kind.

The present form of government in Porto Rico, which provides for the appointment by the President of the members of the executive council or upper house of the legislature, has proved satisfactory and has inspired confidence in property…

Traffic in foodstuffs which have been debased or adulterated so as to injure health or to deceive purchasers should be forbidden.

We can not ask the Chinese to do to us what we are unwilling to do to them.

But we can not expect to receive equity unless we do equity.

As a people we have talked much of the open door in China, and we expect, and quite rightly intend to insist, upon justice being shown us by the Chinese.

We can not afford to consider whether he is Catholic or Protestant, Jew or Gentile; whether he is Englishman or Irishman, Frenchman or German, Japanese, Italian, Scandinavian, Slav, or Magyar.

We can not afford to pay heed to whether he is of one creed or another, of one nation or another.

But distribution is a palliative, not a cure.

As much as possible should be done to distribute the immigrants upon the land and keep them away from the congested tenement-house districts of the great cities.

So far as in my power lies each and every such wrongdoer shall be relentlessly hunted down; in no instance in the past has he been spared; in no instance in the future shall he be spared.

Some antiquated and outworn rules, which once safeguarded the threatened rights of private citizens, now merely work harm to the general body politic.

Our laws and customs tell immensely in favor of the criminal and against the interests of the public he has wronged.

But it is of course true that the man behind the gun, the man in the engine room, and the man in the conning tower, considered not only individually, but especially with regard to the way in which they work together, are even more…

Thus it would have been far better never to have built a single one of these monitors and to have put the money into an ample supply of reserve guns.

We need men who are not merely doctors; they must be trained in the administration of military medical service.

Unless we now provide with ample forethought for the medical needs of the Army and Navy, appalling suffering of a preventable kind is sure to occur if ever the country goes to war.

Promotion by mere seniority can never result in a thoroughly efficient corps of officers in the higher ranks unless there accompanies it a vigorous weeding-out process.

It is enabling the poor harassed people of Santo Domingo once more to turn their attention to industry and to be free from the curse of interminable revolutionary disturbance.

This has completely discouraged all revolutionary movement, while it has already produced such an increase in the revenues that the Government is actually getting more from the 45 per cent that the American collectors turn over to it than…

It is of benefit to our people; it is of benefit to foreign peoples; and most of all it is really of benefit to the people of the country concerned.