Jun 21, 1905
The same qualities that count in the army and the navy are what we need and wish to make the best civilization in the world.
Teddy Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. A member of the Republican Party, he was born on October 27, 1858, in New York. Roosevelt was a prominent leader of the Progressive Movement, advocating for domestic policies that included trust-busting, regulation of corporations, and conservation of natural resources. His administration is noted for significant reforms and the establishment of national parks and forests.
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Jun 21, 1905
I have always regretted that it was not within my power to come here when they dedicated the monument to his memory, but I am deeply thankful to Mr. Plunkett for the interest he has shown in being the first mover in the erection of a…
Jun 21, 1905
He said that at Adams I would be gratified by seeing any number of children.
Jun 21, 1905
These same children are the men and women who, 15 or 20 years hence, will be shaping the destiny of this nation, and they will shape it well or ill, accordingly as they are now brought up.
Jun 21, 1905
If he does not secure such legal evidence, no amount of popular feeling is to be allowed to be substituted for the legal evidence.
Jun 21, 1905
I admire a great many of Massachusetts' products, but I think the product of the children is the best.
Jun 21, 1905
It can only come if the officers entrusted with the administration of the law remember that it is exactly as much their duty to protect the railroad from the public as to protect the public from the railroad.
Jun 21, 1905
I am sure there is not a father or mother that will not agree with me that of all the bodies of men and women in this country, that one to which we owe the most because of their profession is the body of school teachers.
Jun 21, 1905
Keep on building and maintaining at the highest point of efficiency the United States navy, or quit trying to be a big nation.
Jun 21, 1905
That sort of kindness is a curse for those for whom it is nominally exercised.
Jun 21, 1905
It is a great pleasure to come here and stop for a few minutes at the place where my predecessor, President McKinley, was so fond of staying.
Jun 21, 1905
I ask that the nation dare to be great, and that in daring to be great it show how to do justice to the weak no less than to exact justice from the strong.
Jun 20, 1905
Every man that graduates here has received something, and something big, for which he has made no return, and for which he can never make any return to the men giving it.
Jun 20, 1905
We want to see the individual American a decent man, but nothing but a decent man.
Jun 20, 1905
You have given to the country the kind of service no money can possibly buy.
Jun 20, 1905
I want to see this nation not only strong, but just, and not only just, but strong.
Jun 20, 1905
Ruskin said that what counted was the work that was done not for the fees, but for the work's sake.
Jun 20, 1905
All the statesman needs to do is to exercise common sense, and stick as close to the Golden Rule as his imperfect human nature will permit.
Jun 20, 1905
We are to be held to an exceptional accountability for the use we make of those advantages.
Jun 20, 1905
The first duty of each one of you here is to carry your own weight to carry yourselves.
Jun 20, 1905
Put justice first; it will generally lead to peace; but follow it wherever it leads.
Jun 20, 1905
The greatest problem before our people, as before every modern people, is the problem of getting justice as between man and man.
Jun 20, 1905
I have always felt most strongly that it is true of the nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer.
Jun 20, 1905
We must keep our minds upon the essentials and not upon the non-essentials.
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