May 13, 1903
Great is your State, men and women of California, and a great thing it is to be a Californian.
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.
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May 12, 1903
None of the men of my own generation or of this younger, stand as close to me as you of my regiment, as the men of the Spanish War do,
May 12, 1903
I most earnestly hope that this work will ever be of a peaceful character
May 12, 1903
I want to thank you and my comrades of the Spanish-American War from my heart;
May 12, 1903
I should be sorry indeed if there were not societies like those of the Native Sons and Native Daughters in this State to keep alive the sense of historic continuity with the State's mighty past.
May 12, 1903
I trust I came within them a fairly good American, and I leave them a better American.
May 12, 1903
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory…
May 12, 1903
For that reason I hail with especial pleasure the existence of such societies as those which seek to band together the young men and young women native born to this State.
May 12, 1903
The pioneer days have gone, but the need for the old pioneer virtues remains as great as ever.
May 12, 1903
It is not too much to say that no man since Lincoln was as widely and as universally beloved in this country as was President McKinley.
May 12, 1903
When 1898 came and the war which President McKinley in all honesty and in all sincerity sought to avoid became inevitable, and was pressed upon him, he met it as he and you had met the crisis of 1861.
May 12, 1903
I thank you for coming here and for giving me the privilege of joining with you today in these solemn ceremonies of commemoration.
May 12, 1903
I think it is getting to be fairly understood that that is our foreign policy.
May 12, 1903
I have never tasted, not even at the wonderful banquet that I have attended in San Francisco, anything quite so good.
May 12, 1903
Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.
May 11, 1903
Every decent American ought to be proud of the army and the navy of Uncle Sam.
May 11, 1903
And you, men and women, who have had the advantages of a college training are not to be excused if you fail to do not as well as, but if you fail to do more than the average man outside who has not had your advantages.
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