We can not have too much immigration of the right kind, and we should have none at all of the wrong kind.

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it.

Publicity can do no harm to the honest corporation. The only corporation that has cause to dread it is the corporation which shrinks from the light, and about the welfare of such corporations we need not be oversensitive.

The establishment of the Department of Commerce and Labor, with the Bureau of Corporations thereunder, marks a real advance in the direction of doing all that is possible for the solution of the questions vitally affecting capitalists and…

The United States agrees that the ports at either entrance of the canal and the waters thereof and the Republic of Panama agrees that the towns of Panama and Colon shall be free for all time.

The establishment of a naval base in the Philippines ought not to be longer postponed.

The integrity of our currency is beyond question.

The Government of the Republic of Panama shall have the right to transport over the canal its vessels and its troops and munitions of war in such vessels at all times without paying charges of any kind.

We have cause as a nation to be thankful for the steps that have been so successfully taken to put these principles into effect.

The consistent policy of the National Government, so far as it has the power, is to hold in check the unscrupulous man, whether employer or employee; but to refuse to weaken individual initiative or to hamper or cramp the industrial…

The grants herein contained shall in no manner invalidate the titles or rights of private land holders or owners of private property in the said zone or in or to any of the lands or waters granted to the United States by the provisions of…

I also inclose a report from the Secretary of State submitting the convention for my consideration.

I transmit for the advice and consent of the Senate to its ratification a convention between the United States of America and the Republic of Panama for the construction of a ship canal, etc., to connect the waters of the Atlantic and…

The United States guarantees and will maintain the independence of the Republic of Panama.

to no element do we owe more than we owe to that element represented by those whom I have the honor this day of addressing.

It is a matter of real regret to me that I can not attend formally your celebration.

I have the right to challenge the best effort of every American worthy of the name to putting down by every means in his power corruption in private life, and above all corruption in public life.

He holds that he is bound, not merely by treaty obligations, but by the interests of civilization, to see that the peaceable traffic of the world across the Isthmus of Panama shall not longer be disturbed by a constant succession of…

If ever there lived a President who during his term of service needed all of the consolation and of the strength that he could draw from the unseen powers above him, it was Abraham Lincoln.

I hope sincerely that a century hence it will seem equally incredible to the American of that generation that there should be corruption and venality in public life.

I have not willingly planted a thorn in the breast of any man.

The people of Panama having by an apparently unanimous movement dissolved their political connection with the Republic of Colombia and resumed their independence.

By the treaty a large Cuban market is secured to our producers.

It is in the interest of our people as a whole.

A failure to enact such legislation would come perilously near a repudiation of the pledged faith of the Nation.