Every one of you who has seen or studied about a modern warship knows that it is a singularly delicate and complicated as well as a singularly formidable bit of mechanism.

The army is a poor place for a man of hysterical temperament.

I have come here less to teach than to learn

In this country we have got to have decent and intelligent government, not as a substitute for individual initiative but as a supplement to it.

You can do a good deal through the town, but you can do more for the town than it can do for you.

You have got to have the men behind the guns— the men in the engine room.

No laws, however good, can supply the lack of those qualities in any man.

The government cannot do everything.

But education is not enough.

You have got to have a superstructure, too.

The government can do something—it can do a good deal—but it never can begin to do as much for the individual as the individual can do for the government.

You must have it in peace; you must have it in war.

The government is a poor place for a man of hysterical temperament.

We have great problems ahead of us as a nation.

If when people wax fat they kick, as they have kicked since the days of Jeshurun, they will speedily destroy their own prosperity.

Daylight is a powerful discourager of evil.

When the weather is good for crops it is good for weeds.

They will task our intelligence but they will task still more what ranks ahead of intelligence—character.

Each talent--the talent for making money, the talent for showing intellect at the bar, or in any other way--if unaccompanied by character, makes the possessor a menace to the community.

And the same qualities must be shown in public life if we are to make this country what we will make it—an example to all the nations of mankind.

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Alexander Archipelago Forest Reserve.

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Madison Forest Reserve.

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Little Belt Mountains Forest Reserve.

It is hereby ordered that the south half of the south-east quarter and the south-west quarter of section 3, township 22 north, range 26 west, 6th principal meridian, Nebraska, be, and they are hereby, reserved and set apart for the use of…

I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, do hereby declare said agreement duly ratified and that all the provisions thereof became law according to the terms thereof upon the twenty-sixth day of July, nineteen hundred and two.