Teddy Roosevelt

I wish to lay particular stress on the need of preparedness.

We have our faces set toward the future. Our sympathy is not with men who fear for success.

An honest currency is the strongest symbol and expression of honest business life.

It should be our object in every way to encourage the National Guards of the States and to build them up to the highest point of efficiency.

A financial system of assured honesty is the first essential.

A good deed done by any American is put down to the credit of all Americans, and that, therefore, conversely, no act of wrongdoing can be performed by one of our number without the evil effects being felt to a greater or less degree by all…

I am glad indeed to have the chance to come out to this festival, this industrial exposition.

Our Government is a practical exemplification of the great principle of each for all and all for each.

Our instant duty is to try to accommodate our social, economic and legislative life to them.

Cincinnati is prospering marvelously, and under the theory of our National Government, which was invoked when this country became a part of the nation, the nation must continue to do its part in helping secure the prosperity of Cincinnati…

We cannot get rid of them even if it were not undesirable to get rid of them;

Wherever a deed is done by an American which reflects credit upon our country, each of us can walk with his head a little higher in consequence; and wherever anything happens through the fault of any of us that is discreditable it…

We must have the manly virtue deeply imbedded as part of our national characteristics if we are to do our work aright in peace or in war.

We need good laws, we need honest and upright administration of the laws, but we need as the fundamental prerequisite for good government a high average standard of good citizenship in the men who make the laws and stand back of them.

In addition to honesty and decency you must have courage.

You have to have the stuff in you.

We can succeed permanently only upon the basis of standing shoulder to shoulder, working in association, by organization, each working for all.

I needed no pressing to accept the invitation.

In raising my own regiment, I found that there was no group of our citizens from whom better men could be drawn.

We should have, under such circumstances, one sovereign to whom the big corporations should be responsible.

Probably never before in our history has the country been more prosperous than it is at this moment;

When all things flourish it means that there is a good chance for things that we don't like to flourish also, just exactly as things that we do like.

You cannot put a stop to or reverse the industrial tendencies of the age, but you can control and regulate them and see that they do no harm.

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested by section six of said act of Congress of June 6, 1900, do hereby declare and make known that said land is hereby restored to the…

The quality of honesty, the quality of courage, and the quality of common sense.