Teddy Roosevelt

The man who only talks of his rights and not of his duties is not a good citizen.

It was a pleasure to shake hands with Father Boyle.

It always irritates me to see any member of a National Guard armed with a black powder musket.

It is a pleasure to be with you today.

Education in the schools is one thing, but it is not a substitute for education at home.

I thank you from my heart for your greeting.

We are not afraid to expand now.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

We shall make our government a success if we shall measure each man by the standard of his worth as a man.

Brotherhood, fundamentally, means treating each man at his worth as a man.

Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only;

A man to be a good American must be straight, and he must also be strong.

If a man is not decent, is not square and honest, then the possession of ability only serves to render him more dangerous to the community; as a wild beast grows more dangerous the stronger and fiercer he is.

Each man of you who looks back on his life will feel proud to hand to his children, not the memory of the days of ease, but the days that were pretty hard, that meant hard work, but wherein he did something.

I thank you most warmly for the greeting you have extended to me this evening.

It is the man behind the gun in war, and it is the man behind the plough in peace.

It will not be worth while summoning our people to do well in war if they have not done well in peace beforehand.

I think that this is a State that favors longevity.

The people of Vermont work with honesty of purpose, the people of Vermont show by their life actions that they are true to an ideal.

You have got to have— you of the Civil War, you fought with widely different weapons and widely different tactics from the men who were with Ethan Allen.

Our safety lies in the sanity, the cool hard-headedness, the self-restraint, mingled with the resolute purpose of our people to get the right law on the statute books, to see that it is then enforced against the great and small with even…

I like to see a man who is a good citizen.

Anarchy in any shape or manner—and by anarchy I mean all types of mob violence, the violence of one man or the violence of many by action against the law—anarchy in any shape or way is the surest handmaiden of tyranny.

Play is a first rate thing, as long as you know it is play.

Gentlemen and ladies, it has always been a pleasure to me to come here to your city.