Teddy Roosevelt

But I felt that he possessed the high integrity which I demanded in the man who was to manage my campaign.

If true they would brand both of us forever with infamy; and inasmuch as they are false, heavy must be the condemnation of the man making them.

He neither has produced nor can produce any proof of their truth; yet he has not withdrawn them; and as his position gives them wide currency, I speak now lest the silence of self-respect be misunderstood.

Our effort must be unceasing both to secure in each nation full acknowledgment of the rights of others, and to bring about in each nation an ever growing sense of its own responsibilities.

The right and the responsibility must go hand in hand.

We hold ever before us as the all-important end of policy and administration the reign of peace at home and throughout the world; of peace, which comes only by doing justice.

We stand for enforcement of the law and for obedience to the law; our Government is a government of orderly liberty equally alien to tyranny and to anarchy; and its foundation-stone is the observance of the law, alike by the people and by…

We have striven both for civic righteousness and for national greatness; and we have faith to believe that our hands will be upheld by all who feel love of country and trust in the uplifting of mankind.

We make our appeal to no class and to no section, but to all good citizens, in whatever part of the land they dwell, and whatever may be their occupation or worldly condition.

If, on the other hand, they should come in and reverse any or all of our policies, by just so much would the Nation as a whole be damaged.

There is not a policy, foreign or domestic, which we are now carrying out, which it would not be disastrous to reverse or abandon.

We press steadily forward toward the goal of moral and material well-being for our own people, of just and fearless dealing toward all other peoples, in the interest not merely of this country, but of mankind.

On the contrary, we treat the record of what we have done in the past as incitement to do even better in the future.

Under conditions as they actually are, good Americans should refuse, for the sake of the welfare of the Nation, to change the national policy.

The great issues which are at stake, and upon which I have touched, are more than mere partisan issues, for they involve much that comes home to the individual pride and individual well-being of our people.

Our appeal is made to all good citizens who hold the honor and the interest of the Nation close to their hearts.

In our several commonwealths here in the United States we, as a people, now face the complex problem of securing fair treatment to each man regardless of his race or color.

Can our opponents deny that here at home the principles of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments have been in effect nullified?

Any abandonment of the policy which we have steadily pursued in the islands would be fraught with dishonor and disaster; and to such dishonor and disaster I do not believe that the American people will consent.

We did not take the Philippines at will, and we can not put them aside at will.

It broke the shackles of four million slaves, and made them free, and to the party of Lincoln has come another supreme opportunity which it has bravely met in the liberation of ten millions of the human family from the yoke of imperialism.

It has been the party of liberty and emancipation from that hour; not of profession, but of performance.

We will perform without fear every national and international obligation.

No blow has been struck except for liberty and humanity, and none will be.

There will be no turning aside, no wavering, no retreat.