May 4, 1903
I appreciate to the full all the difficulties under which you labor, and I think that your progress has been astonishing.
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 4, 1903
Of all the work that is done or that can be done for our country, the greatest is that of educating the body, the mind, and above all the character, giving spiritual and moral training to those who in a few years are themselves to decide…
May 3, 1903
The object of the law is to provide small irrigated farms to actual settlers, to actual home-makers; the land is given away ultimately in small tracts under the terms of the homestead act, the settlers repaying the cost of bringing water…
May 3, 1903
The policy is a policy of encouragement to the home-maker, to the man who comes to establish his home.
Apr 29, 1903
This work of expansion was by far the greatest work of our people during the years that intervened between the adoption of the Constitution and the outbreak of the Civil War.
Apr 29, 1903
We have met here today to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the event which more than any other, after the foundation of the Government and always excepting its preservation, determined the character of our national life—determined…
Apr 29, 1903
Great peoples must have in addition the governmental capacity which comes only when individuals fully recognize their duties to one another and to the whole body politic.
Apr 28, 1903
Our currency laws have been recently improved by specific declarations intended to secure permanency of values; but this does not imply that these laws may not be further improved and strengthened.
Dec 21, 1902
It is hereby ordered that all that portion of the White Mountain or San Carlos Indian Reservation in the Territory of Arizona lying within the following described boundaries be, and the same hereby is, restored to the public domain, to wit
Dec 9, 1902
I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, relative to the proceedings of the International Congress for the Study of the Production and Consumption of Coffee.
Dec 1, 1902
Ours is not the creed of the weakling and the coward; ours is the gospel of hope and of triumphant endeavor.
Dec 1, 1902
Our aim should be not by unwise tariff changes to give foreign products the advantage over domestic products.
Nov 25, 1902
It is hereby ordered that the southeast quarter of section 31, township 27 north, range 10 east, Mount Diablo meridian, California, be, and the same is hereby, reserved and set apart for Indian school purposes, the same to form a part of…
Nov 21, 1902
Most certainly I do not claim all the good that has befallen us during the past six years as due solely to any human policy.
Nov 21, 1902
It is a poor type of school nowadays that has not a good playground attached.
Nov 18, 1902
The American flag stands for orderly liberty, and it stands for it abroad as it stands for it at home.
Nov 18, 1902
If any of us raise ourselves a little, then by just so much the nation, as a whole, is raised.
Nov 18, 1902
The task of our soldiers was to restore and maintain order in the islands.
Nov 10, 1902
Important though it is that we should have peace abroad, it is even more important that we should have peace at home.
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