Nov 9, 1903
This convention shall not take effect until the same shall have been approved by the Congress.
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.
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Oct 30, 1903
I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, do hereby designate as a day of general thanksgiving Thursday, the twenty-sixth of the coming November.
Oct 30, 1903
In no other place and at no other time has the experiment of government of the people, by the people, for the people, been tried on so vast a scale as here in our own country in the opening years of the 20th Century.
Oct 30, 1903
During the last year the Lord has dealt bountifully with us, giving us peace at home and abroad and the chance for our citizens to work for their welfare unhindered by war, famine or plague.
Oct 24, 1903
Thou shalt serve the Lord with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and in all thy mind.
Oct 24, 1903
We being ready both in body and soul may cheerfully accomplish those things which thou commandest.
Oct 14, 1903
No man is warranted in feeling pride in the deeds of the army and navy of the past if he does not back up the army and the navy of the present.
Oct 14, 1903
Leadership is of avail only so far as there is wise and resolute public sentiment behind it.
Oct 14, 1903
We need their ruggedness of body, their keen and vigorous minds, and above all their dominant quality of forceful character.
Oct 14, 1903
Our homage to-day to the memory of Sherman comes from the depths of our being.
Oct 14, 1903
Their lives teach us to strive after in our own lives, not the thing which is merely pleasant, but the thing which it is our duty to do.
Oct 14, 1903
My faith that it will show no falling off is based upon my faith in the character of our average citizenship.
Oct 14, 1903
The life of duty, not the life of mere ease or mere pleasure—that is the kind of life which makes the great man as it makes the great nation.
Sep 16, 1903
In addition to decency he had to have the qualities that would make the decency effective.
Sep 16, 1903
There has never been another war in which the issues at stake were so large.
Sep 16, 1903
Our country, now so great and so wonderful, would have been split into little jangling rival nationalities.
Sep 16, 1903
No other battle of the Civil War lasting but one day shows as great a percentage of loss as that which occurred here upon the day on which Antietam was fought.
Sep 16, 1903
Just one word in closing. As I said, we need to display the same qualities now that you needed in 1861.
Sep 16, 1903
The fundamental qualities which make for good citizenship do not change any more than the fundamental qualities which make good soldiers.
Sep 16, 1903
Lincoln forthwith published that immortal paper, the preliminary declaration of emancipation.
Sep 16, 1903
A man was not worth any thing then if he was not patriotic and decent.
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