The production of the certificate of registration will be dispensed with only upon satisfactory proof of its loss or destruction.

No one will be permitted to make settlement upon any of said lands in advance of the opening herein provided for.

This country has never done better work, that is, work that reflected more honor upon the country, or for humanity at large, than the work done in Cuba.

The doctor must, therefore, to the greatest degree develop both sides of his nature.

Now and then some alarmist report will come from Panama.

It will not be a failure.

The scientific man who is really a first-class scientific man has a claim upon the gratitude of all the country.

All I needed was permission.

I needed no invitation to come before you today.

We have not been able to reward Wood in anything like the proportion that services such as his would have been rewarded in any other country of the first rank in the world;

The chance to do good work is the greatest chance that can come to any man or any woman in our generation or in any other generation.

Thrice fortunate are you to whom it is given to lead lives of resolute endeavor for the achievement of lofty ideals.

To furnish in your lives such a realized high ideal is to do a great service to the country.

You teachers make the whole world your debtor.

If you did not do your work well this Republic would not endure beyond the span of the generation.

I do not in the least underestimate the need of having material prosperity as the basis of our civilization.

Venomous envy of wealth is simply another form of the spirit which in one of its manifestations takes the shape of cringing servility toward wealth.

Even when we hear so much criticism of certain aspects of our public life and of certain of our public servants, criticism which I regret to state is in many cases deserved.

The chief harm done by the men of swollen fortune to the community is not the harm that the demagogue is apt to depict as springing from their actions.

It is absolutely necessary to earn a certain amount of money.

and finally he crowned his life work by serving as Secretary of State with such farsighted reading of the future and such loyalty to lofty ideals as to confer lasting benefits not only upon our own country but upon all the nations of the…

His death, a crushing sorrow to his friends, is to the people of this country a national bereavement; and it is in addition a serious loss to all mankind

He entered the public service as the trusted and intimate companion of Abraham Lincoln, and for well-nigh forty-five years he served his country with loyal devotion and high ability in many positions of honor and trust

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do declare and proclaim that the first of the conditions specified in section 13 of the act of March 3, 1891, is now fulfilled in respect to the subjects of…

Done at the request of Secretary Hay, who says she is now the best clerk of her class that he has.