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.
I earnestly hope that our foreign policy shall be continued absolutely without regard to change of administration, to change of party.
If either the business world or the world of labor loses its head, then it has lost something which cannot be made good by any governmental effort.
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.
No finally satisfactory result can be expected from merely State action.
On the other hand, we have the right to expect from the representatives of the people a peculiar care for your interests.
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…
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.
One of the constant problems of life is to try to cultivate breadth without shallowness, just as we want to cultivate depth without narrowness.
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.
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.\
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…
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.
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.
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.
It is impossible to overestimate the importance of the cause you represent.
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.
It seems to me that our honor as a nation is involved in seeing that these needs are met.
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.





