The public good would be promoted by setting apart and reserving said lands as a public reservation

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by said act, do hereby make known and proclaim that all lands embraced in my said proclamation of August 3, 1905, saving…

I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the act of Congress, do hereby declare and make known that the lands above described are hereby reserved as townsites.

The Monroe Doctrine is not a part of international law.

It is our duty, as far as we are able, to try to help upward our weaker brothers.

I have a great contempt for the brawler, and not merely contempt but the most active dislike for the man who bullies whomsoever is weaker, who wrongs the less fortunate.

Fossilization, of course, means death, whether to an individual, a government, or a doctrine.

Therefore it is a fine thing to see men who have taken up a profession which calls for the exercise of very ounce of courage and coolness and prowess a man can have.

Under no circumstances will the United States use the Monroe Doctrine as a cloak for territorial aggression.

We stand ready to help that great city at any time.

It is a great pleasure to me to be back here again.

I earnestly hope it never will be called again, and I will make every effort to see that peace obtains, but one first-class way to keep peace is to make it evident that you are not afraid to fight.

We must not try to go too fast, under penalty of finding that we may be going in the wrong direction; and, in any event, we ought always to proceed by evolution and not by revolution.

It is out of the question to claim a right and yet shirk the responsibility for exercising that right.

I do not want to see any foreign power take possession permanently or temporarily of the customs houses of an American republic in order to enforce its obligations.

Every consideration of wise policy, and, above all, every consideration of large generosity, bids us meet the request of Santo Domingo as we are now trying to meet it.

One of the main features of our national governmental policy should be the effort to secure adequate and effective supervisory and regulatory control over all great corporations doing an interstate business.

No stable and growing American republic wishes to see some great non-American military power acquire territory in its neighborhood.

The shot that counts is the shot that hits.

The way to be a good citizen is to be a good man or woman in your own home; to do your duty by those closest to you, by those immediately dependent upon you.

In addition to that, you have got to do your duty by the State and by your neighbor.

Whether this country goes up or goes down will depend in the last analysis upon the character of the average American, and I believe that this country will go up because I believe that in the future the average character of our average…

The only effective way to help anybody is to help him help himself.

Self-government is not an easy thing, either for the nation or for the individual; and it works really well only when you have a high type of average citizenship.

It is a proud and responsible privilege to be citizens of this great self-governing nation; and each of us needs to keep steadily before his eyes the fact that he is wholly unfit to take part in the work of governing others unless he can…