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.
May 9, 1905
Personally, I believe that the Federal government must take an in creasing control over corporations.
May 9, 1905
This government is not, and never shall be, the government of a plutocracy.
May 9, 1905
The courts would retain, no matter what the legislature did, the power to interfere and upset any action that was confiscatory in its nature.
May 9, 1905
It is going to be dug honestly and as cheaply as is compatible with efficiency, but with efficiency first.
May 9, 1905
I shall strive to appoint and retain men who will do exactly the same justice to the railroad as they will exact from the railroad.
May 9, 1905
I have accepted your kind and generous invitation to come before you this evening.
May 9, 1905
I remodeled it anyhow, purely in the exercise of my executive functions.
May 9, 1905
I hail every Harvard club west of the Alleghany, even more than I do those east of there
May 9, 1905
Our country is governed and under existing circumstances can only be governed, under the party system.
May 9, 1905
No business community can permanently succeed if the average member of it does not possess a certain quantity of high ideals;
May 9, 1905
If there is not a foundation of material prosperity for the State, as for the individual, you cannot expect anything but unhappiness; but woe to the State, as woe to the individual, if material prosperity is all that is sought after.
May 9, 1905
It is a great pleasure to greet you to-day and be once again in this fertile and beautiful State of Illinois.
May 9, 1905
I doubt if any member of the Hamilton Club has longer and pleasanter associations with it than I have.
May 9, 1905
My pet theory has been that the very best thing that can happen to Harvard is to have the West win it
May 9, 1905
Perhaps the father of a number of children can be excused for saying that of all the classes of our country I think the school teacher deserves a little the best of all of us.
May 9, 1905
You raise a great many good crops in Illinois, but the best crop is the Illinois citizen.
May 9, 1905
It is a mere truism to say that the most fertile country in the world will amount to nothing if you do not have the right type of citizenship in it, and you will not have the right type of citizenship if the proper care is not given to the…
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