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 18, 1903
Lying out at night under those giant Sequoias was lying in a temple built by no hand of man, a temple grander than any human architect could by any possibility build.
May 18, 1903
There is no body of men and women in all our country to whom so much is owing as to those who are training the next generation.
May 18, 1903
We do not believe here in this republic in the men who seek only the life of ease, the life of absence of effort.
May 18, 1903
The future of the State depends not upon what is material, for that you can produce if you have the heart, the hand, and the head to do it; it depends upon the quality of heart, hand and head in the average American.
May 17, 1903
To take advantage of the greatest opportunities you must have the men.
May 17, 1903
I believe in your future, because I believe in you—not only in the climate and the soil.
May 17, 1903
I do not care whether a man is a banker or a bricklayer; if he is a good banker or a good bricklayer he is a good citizen.
May 17, 1903
If the man is a slack, shiftless creature I wish we could get rid of him.
May 17, 1903
I believe not in brilliancy, not in genius, I believe in the ordinary, humdrum, work-a-day virtues that make a man a good man in his family, a good neighbor, a good man to deal with in business, a good man to deal with in the State.
May 17, 1903
It does not make any difference what work the man is doing if he does it well.
May 14, 1903
Our duty is to lead our lives in a spirit of decency, of courage and of common sense, that will make us fit to be citizens of this great republic.
May 13, 1903
In the last analysis it is the man's own character which is and must ever be the determining factor in his success or failure in life
May 13, 1903
No worthier object can be striven after than the creation of a building such as this for the benefit of those to whom every American owes so much—the enlisted men of the United States navy.
May 13, 1903
I do not ask of you, men and women here today, good citizenship as a favor to the State.
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