"There must be vested in the Federal Government a full power of supervision and control over the railways doing interstate business."
"There must be progressive legislative and administrative action for the correction of the evils which every sincere man must admit to have existed in railroad management in the past."
"For he died in the fulness of time, serving his country with entire devotion—a death that every man may well envy."
"Today I wish to say a word to you about the first and most important feature of this task, the control of the common carriers doing an interstate business, a control absolutely vested in the Nation."
"There will be no halt in the forward movement toward a full development of this policy."
"We best serve the interests of the honest railway men when we announce that we will follow out precisely this course."
"There can be no swerving from the course that has thus been mapped out in the legislation actually enacted and in the messages in which I have asked for further legislation."
"I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, in furtherance of the provisions of said act of April 27, 1904, do hereby declare and make known that the lands shown upon the approved farm unit..."
"These crimes were certainly committed by somebody."
"it would, of course, be impossible to preserve discipline in the Army save by pursuing precisely the course that in this case was pursued."
"The making of this cut in a bank composed of light alluvial soil above a depression such as this without controlling devices was criminal negligence."