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 25, 1903
We have the right to ask every decent American citizen to rally to the support of the law if it is ever broken against the interest of the rich man.
May 25, 1903
Every man who has made wealth or used it in developing great legitimate business enterprises has been of benefit and not harm to the country at large.
May 25, 1903
His folly is greater than the folly of any other man who so complains; for he lives and moves and has his being because the law does in fact protect him and his property.
May 25, 1903
This is not and never shall be a government either of a plutocracy or of a mob.
May 24, 1903
I congratulate you, my fellow citizens, upon what you are doing here, in this great State, in bringing up your children worthily to continue the work that the pioneers began, and that you are helping carry to completion.
May 24, 1903
I cannot sufficiently congratulate you, Mr. President, upon what has been done here with this college.
May 22, 1903
Think of having a Sound with about fifteen hundred miles of possible dockage!
May 22, 1903
I earnestly hope that the need for war will never come to our people.
May 22, 1903
I believe in the pioneer, even when he is as well dressed as the pioneer I am addressing.
May 22, 1903
I want to thank you and through you your fellow workmen for this token.
May 22, 1903
The spirit of class hatred is as base if it takes one shape as if it takes the other.
May 22, 1903
We need to have built upon it the kind of life which will give to the citizenship of the community the chance of developing itself along the loftiest lines.
May 22, 1903
I am a pretty good Westerner; I am accustomed to seeing extraordinary growth, but what I have seen today has astonished me.
May 22, 1903
And think how absolutely the event has falsified the predictions of those men.
May 22, 1903
Nothing could have pleased me more than to have received this gift from the men of the yard, and I appreciate it.
May 22, 1903
I am happy to say that during the last year or two the National Legislature has begun to realize its responsibilities in reference to Alaska;
May 22, 1903
The republics of antiquity and of the middle ages all failed and almost invariably because a bitter factional war began among them.
May 22, 1903
There is no other body of water in the world which confers upon the commonwealth possessing it quite the natural advantages that Puget Sound confers upon this State; and there is no other State in the Union, and I include all of them…
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