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.
May 27, 1903
No law that the wit of man has even devised can make or ever will make a fool wise, or a coward brave, or a weakling strong.
May 27, 1903
Our object should be sedulously to provide against letting great tracts of land go into the hands of any one man or of any one corporation.
May 27, 1903
This government is not and never shall be a government either of a plutocracy or of a mob.
May 27, 1903
Much can be done by the aid of the government, by the aid of the State; but, after all, the fundamental thing in bringing success to any community is the quality of the average man, the average woman, in that community.
May 27, 1903
I congratulate you upon the output from the mines, next the ranches, but most of all the children.
May 27, 1903
The line that in the elemental matters we must ever draw is the line of conduct.
May 27, 1903
I do not believe that Congress has for many years passed any law relating to our internal development so wise as the irrigation law of a year ago.
May 27, 1903
I think I was a pretty good American when I came, but I am going away a better American.
May 26, 1903
This is not, and never shall be, a government of a plutocracy; it is not, and never shall be, a government by a mob.
May 26, 1903
You need first of all to distribute the water in space through the irrigating ditches, and then to preserve it in time by storage in reservoirs.
May 26, 1903
The most unsafe adviser to follow is the man who would advise us to do wrong in order that we may benefit by it.
May 26, 1903
We are bound in honor to try to remedy injustice; but if we are wise we will seek to remedy it in practical ways.
May 26, 1903
We are going to see great manufacturing centers here in Montana taking advantage of the power of your waters.
May 26, 1903
And Congress, the National Legislature, has not of recent years put upon the statute books any law as wise, as beneficent as the National irrigation act of a year ago.
May 25, 1903
The crime of cunning, the crime of greed, the crime of violence, are all equally crimes, and against them all alike the law must set its face.
May 25, 1903
I ask that we see to it in our country that the line of division in the deeper matters of our citizenship be drawn, never between section and section, never between creed and creed, never, thrice never, between class and class.
May 25, 1903
Incidentally, whether he acquiesce or not, the law will be enforced, and this whoever he may be, great or small, and at whichever end of the social scale he may be.
May 25, 1903
While all people are foolish if they violate or rail against the law—wicked as well as foolish, but all foolish—yet the most foolish man in this Republic is the man of wealth who complains because the law is administered with impartial…
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