It is hereby ordered that so much of the land of the Camp McDowell abandoned military reservation as may not have been legally settled upon nor have valid claims attaching thereto under the provisions of the act of Congress approved August…

The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us.

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man.

We must act upon the motto of 'all for each and each for all.'

No one seems to arrive at any goal really worth reaching in this world who does not come to it heavy laden.

We can keep our government on a sane and healthy basis, we can make and keep our social system what it should be, only on condition of judging each man, not as a member of a class, but on his worth as a man.

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Pocatello Forest Reserve.

The shots that tell are the shots that hit.

I expect every one to show a perfect willingness to die rather than to see the slightest stain put upon the American flag.

The coward is to be condemned rather than the brave man to be praised.

I desire to see in this country the decent men strong and the strong men decent.

I do not expect perfection, but I do expect genuine and sincere effort toward being decent and cleanly in thought, in word, and in deed.

Example is the most potent of all things.

There is always a tendency among very young men and among boys who are not quite young men as yet to think that to be wicked is rather smart; to think it shows that they are men.

Just this morning when attending service on the great battleship Kearsarge I listened to a sermon addressed to the officers and enlisted men of the navy.

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section sixteen of said act of Congress of March 3, 1891, do hereby declare and make known that said land is hereby opened to…

Mrs. Julia W. Wellborn may be permanently appointed Clerk in the Geological Survey without examination under the civil service rules.

It is hereby ordered that the following-described tracts of land be, and the same are hereby, withdrawn from sale and settlement and set apart as an addition to the Moapa River or Paiute Indian Reservation in southeastern Nevada, for the…

Luther M. Walter may be appointed to the position of law clerk in the Interstate Commerce Commission upon appropriate noncompetitive examination.

Mrs. Annie M. West and Mrs. Sadie B. Yates may be reinstated to the positions of sewer and telephone operator, respectively, in the Government Printing Office, without regard to the provisions of Rule IX limiting the period of eligibility…

In the tests prescribed under regulations governing the employment of unskilled labor the element of age shall be omitted in the case of soldiers and sailors of the Civil War, and their relative fitness decided by their physical…

The worst crime against this nation which can be committed by any man is the crime of dishonesty, whether in public life, or whether in private life.

Now that was not enough, no matter how patriotic a man was in 1861.

If he did not have a fighting edge, his patriotism did not count.