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 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.
May 7, 1905
I con gratulate you still more on the pains you are taking to educate the citizenship of the future.
May 7, 1905
As I say, that represents in my mind part of what should be the general policy of this country.
May 7, 1905
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.
May 7, 1905
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.
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.
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.
May 5, 1905
The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Wallowa Forest Reserve.
May 5, 1905
Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the tract of land reserved by this proclamation.
May 5, 1905
The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Klamath Forest Reserve.
Apr 25, 1905
The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Trinity Forest Reserve.
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.
Apr 14, 1905
I thank you very, very much for coming here, and I am glad to see you.
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…
Apr 13, 1905
I wish to thank the men of the National Guard for coming out as my escort.
Apr 13, 1905
If that is the type we have in our representatives, we are going to have success.
Apr 13, 1905
We cannot afford to barter such qualities as honesty, as courage, as common sense for any amount of brilliancy or genius.
Apr 13, 1905
I have the feeling for them that one naturally has for the men with whom he has been thrown into the intimate relations of life.
Apr 13, 1905
If a lot of newspaper men start to come in after me, I will have to come home; that's all there is to it.
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