There is no use of expecting much of him if he cannot pull his own weight.
Teddy Roosevelt
The Public Record
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.
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.
This government is not, and never shall be, the government of a plutocracy.
I doubt if any member of the Hamilton Club has longer and pleasanter associations with it than I have.
Our people have risen and will rise because they have taken care of both sides of the development of the national character.
The eastern part of Colorado, which fifteen years ago was considered as only a country for sage brush and jack rabbits, has now come up so that it has relatively as great a future as any other part of the state.
It is a great pleasure to have the chance of saying a word or two to you this morning.
The character of the average man and average woman is what in the last resort determines the great ness of the State, the greatness of the nation.
Let me repeat. I have told you my views as to what I regard to be the most important matter of international legislation that in the immediate future will be before this people.
We cannot afford in any shape or way in this country to encourage a feeling which would do injustice to a man of property any more than we would submit to injustice from a man of property.
I cannot say how much impressed I am as I travel through your great State.
You here and those who went just ahead of you have conquered the wilderness and made it blossom like a rose.
This state is going to be one of the places to which people from the East and West are going to come, to see your country, to enjoy it, to make it one of the holiday spots of the land.
The policy of giving not to the State but to the National government an increased supervisory and regulatory power over corporations is the first step, and to my mind the most important step.
It was just as certain to follow the election of a class who plundered another class, whether the class thus given mastery was the poor who plundered the rich, or the class of the rich who exploited the poor.
There is such a marvelous diversification of natural features in your landscape, you are thrice fortunate in your material resources.





