Political Quotes

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.

Quotes by year · 190219122,141 total · peak 1905 (747)
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May 7, 1905

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.

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May 7, 1905

There is such a marvelous diversification of natural features in your landscape, you are thrice fortunate in your material resources.

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May 7, 1905

I doubt if you yourselves fully realize its future, as I have said to you before.

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May 7, 1905

In my judgment, it is absolutely necessary that the nation, for the State cannot possibly do it, should assume a supervisory and regulatory function over the great corporations which practically control the highways of commerce.

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May 7, 1905

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.

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May 7, 1905

Get that fact clear in your mind, or you will be laying up for yourselves a store of incalculable disappointment in the future.

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May 7, 1905

I con gratulate you still more on the pains you are taking to educate the citizenship of the future.

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May 5, 1905

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Wallowa Forest Reserve.

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May 5, 1905

By virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress aforesaid, do hereby withdraw from sale, entry or other disposition, the land embraced in the legal subdivision.

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May 5, 1905

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation.

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May 5, 1905

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Klamath Forest Reserve.

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Apr 25, 1905

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Trinity Forest Reserve.

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Apr 14, 1905

I believe in the mines; I believe, as you know, in the irrigation works; I believe in your stock ranches, in everything; but the real crop is the crop of children, for if you get that all straight, the other crops will take care of…

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Apr 14, 1905

I thank you very, very much for coming here, and I am glad to see you.

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Apr 14, 1905

I want to say what a pleasure it has been to see the way in which the next generation is being started out on its life task here in Colorado.

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Apr 13, 1905

It is a great pleasure to me to be back in New Mexico and to pass through Clayton.

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Apr 13, 1905

I believe more in children than I do in irrigation and you know I am all right on irrigation.

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Apr 13, 1905

I am glad to see a first-class exhibit of New Mexico's children.

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