Teddy Roosevelt

This government cannot and shall not become a government either of a plutocracy or of a mob.

Seriously, let me thank you and the members of the Arctic Brotherhood for their greeting and their gifts.

I am absolutely confident of the future, not only of this State, but of our entire country.

We don't know the cost, but we know that it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result.

I try to practice it myself, too.

I earnestly hope that Congress will speedily provide for a delegate from Alaska, so that the people of the Territory may have some recognized exponent whose duty it shall be to place their needs before the national legislature.

It is because of what they did that the President of the United States can travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Rio Grande to the forty-ninth parallel and be at home everywhere.

The preservation of our forests depends chiefly upon the wisdom with which the practical lumberman, the expert in dealing with the lumber industry, works with the men who have studied the scientific side of forestry.

I earnestly hope that Congress will speedily provide for a delegate from Alaska,

Phenomenal though your growth has been, it has barely begun.

It is not open to you to say that you will or will not make that return as you choose.

Stand just as quiet as possible; do not sway; just stand as quiet as possible.

Very few European races have exercised a more profound influence upon Europe, and none has had a more heroic history, than the race occupying the Scandinavian countries of the Old World.

I am anxious that our laws should be framed in the interest of those who intend to go there and stay there and bring up their children there and make it in very fact as well as in name an integral part of this Republic.

I confess I am for the moment a little surprised at the aspect of so many of the Alaskan pioneers.

I do not believe that even you yourselves realize how great the future is that stretches before this country.

We do not know the cost, but we know it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result;

The only shots that count are the shots that hit.

Never draw unless you mean to shoot.

I ask for a navy, primarily, because it is the surest means of keeping peace; and also because if war does come, surely there can be no American who will tolerate the idea of its having anything other than a successful issue.

If you were not I would want to know what was the matter with you.

It is no wonder the people of Washington have shown themselves true to the practices and principles of the men who fought in the great war.

Do not threaten; do not bluster; above all, do not insult other people; but when you make up your mind that the situation is such as to require you to take a given position, take it and keep it, and have it definitely understood that what…

With men such as you, and with two of your citizens, the father and mother of a boy like that, of course you are expansionists.

I congratulate Washington on its agriculture, its lumber, its mines, upon all that it produces, but most of all upon its crop of children.