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…

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

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

It is a pleasure to be with you today.

It was a pleasure to shake hands with Father Boyle.

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

We are not afraid to expand now.

I thank you from my heart for your greeting.

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

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

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.

Be ye doers of the word and not hearers only;

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

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

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

I despise the man who will not work.

I think there is but one class of people who deserve as well as the soldiers and those are they who teach the children of the present how to be the masters of our country in the future.

The best is none too good for this Republic.

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.

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.

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

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

I pity no man because he has got to work.

I believe in preaching, but I believe in practice a good deal more.