Teddy Roosevelt

Ours is an age of specialization and the man who is to do industrial work will find himself immeasurably better prepared for it if he can have the proper kind of industrial training.

This is not and never shall be a government of a mob.

All men are not merely wicked, but foolish, if they ask privileges to violate the law.

It is a great pleasure to have the chance of coming before you and saying a word of greeting to you today.

The supreme safety of our country is to be found in the fearless and honest administration of the law of the land.

But it will not fail—it will succeed because we still have in us the spirit of the men of '61.

I feel that as an American citizen it is proper for me to express to you and to those like you, the obligations that good Americans feel for what you and they have done in this university and in other educational institutions throughout…

The man who seeks to inspire one set of Americans to hate another because of difference of creed, because of difference of locality, difference of occupation, or of wealth, is a curse to the republic.

If we did not go through the trials and troubles that they did, we at least did the best we could.

We can not too highly honor him.

A man who fails to show such regard for his fellow stamps himself as being unfit to do his duty in American life.

All that the law can do is to give a fair show to each man to develop the best there is in him, guarding him against injustice from others, and seeing that he works no injustice in return.

I ask this audience—I ask the State of Illinois—I ask the entire Union to see to it, that there is no fault in the upbuilding and the maintaining of the American navy.

Had it not been for the word the deeds could not have taken place; but without the deeds the word would have been the idlest breath.

I have literally but a moment here.

Of course if the law does not do that, it fails in its duty.

The American Navy was able in 1898 to add a new page to the honor of our republic because it had been built up during the preceding dozen years.

Don't foul; don't flinch; and hit the line hard.

A great nation such as ours cannot play a small part in the world.

Good bye and good luck.

We did it; and I hope the veterans of the great war feel that at least we showed the spirit they would want their sons and successors to show.

I believe in [the Monroe Doctrine] with all my heart.

The word was mighty.

When the hand of the Lord is heavy upon any body of men, the wisdom of man can do but little.

We have Biblical authority, as well as the authority of common sense, for the statement that the rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.