Teddy Roosevelt

The right of incorporation ought to be suspended at once until Congress can devise proper legislation for guarding its exercise.

Of all foolish crimes, of all baseless figments of a disturbed imagination, the cry of militarism in this country is the most foolish and the most baseless.

On the one hand we have the right to expect a peculiar measure of self-sacrificing service from you.

There must be no hurry, but there must also be no halt; and those who are anxious that there should be no sudden and violent changes must remember that precisely these sudden and violent changes will be rendered likely if we refuse to make…

I deem the matter of sufficient general importance to recommend that the Director of the Census be authorized by appropriate legislation to collect and publish statistics pertaining to that subject covering the period from 1886 to the…

The case calls for the most radical remedy.

He will not and cannot do this if our laws are so defective that in the sharp competition of the business world the conscientious man is put at a disadvantage by his less scrupulous fellows.

Our faith in the future of the republic is firm, because we believe that on the whole and in the long run our people think clearly and act rightly.

I thank you for having given me the chance to speak to you this morning, to say a word of greeting to you and to wish you Godspeed with all my heart.

Let me congratulate you and let me congratulate all of us that we live in a land and at a time when we accept it as natural that this should be an inter-denominational service of thanksgiving.

The forces of evil are strong and mighty in this century and in this country, as they are in other countries; and the people who sincerely wish to do the Lord’s work will find ample opportunity for all their labor in fighting the common…

One of the constant problems of life is to try to cultivate breadth without shallowness, just as we want to cultivate depth without narrowness.

The appointment of Mr. E. W. Libbey as telegraph and telephone operator, at $1,000 per annum, in the Department of Commerce and Labor, on July 13, 1903, is approved, and he may be continued in the service without examination under the…

I transmit herewith certain reports by the Commissioner of Labor and the Attorney-General on the labor disturbances in Colorado, together with copies of correspondence between the President and the Attorney-General and the Commissioner of…

To the Senate:In compliance with a resolution of the Senate of the 25th instant (the House of Representatives concurring), I return herewith Senate bill No. 5501, entitled \An act granting an increase of pension to Sarah A. Rowe.\

But if we have solved every other problem in the wisest possible way, it shall profit us nothing if we have lost our own national soul.

Such improvements in the monetary systems of the silver-using countries bring them into closer connection with the gold-standard countries and are of very great benefit to the trade of the United States, and every effort should be made to…

No material prosperity, no business growth, no artistic or scientific development will count if the race commits suicide.

It is impossible to overestimate the importance of the cause you represent.

If the average husband and wife fulfil their duties toward one another and toward their children as Christianity teaches them, then we may rest absolutely assured that the other problems will solve themselves.

The attention of Congress is invited to the request of the Secretary of State that 500 copies of the report and appendixes be printed for the use of the Department of State.

I earnestly hope that legislation along the general lines advocated by Lieutenant Emmons can be enacted.

I very earnestly ask the attention of the Congress to the facts set forth in this report as to the needs of the native people of Alaska.

It seems to me that our honor as a nation is involved in seeing that these needs are met.

It will, in my opinion, be found upon examination that, while the measure proposed is a modest and more or less tentative one, involving comparatively slight expense, it promises important and far-reaching consequences.