Teddy Roosevelt

We best serve the interests of the honest railway men when we announce that we will follow out precisely this course.

Today I wish to say a word to you about the first and most important feature of this task, the control of the common carriers doing an interstate business, a control absolutely vested in the Nation.

It is the course of real, of ultimate conservatism.

There can be no swerving from the course that has thus been mapped out in the legislation actually enacted and in the messages in which I have asked for further legislation.

To them it was given to perform the one feat with which no other feat can be compared, for to them it was given to preserve the Union.

Let us try as a people to show the same qualities as we deal with the industrial and social problems of today that Abraham Lincoln showed when with indomitable resolution, but with a kindliness, patience, and common-sense quite as…

Our duties are those of peace and not of war.

The power of the Nation must be exerted to stop crimes of cunning no less than crimes of violence.

The hero whose monument we today unveil, by his life bore singular testimony to the completeness of the reunion.

I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, in furtherance of the provisions of said act of April 27, 1904, do hereby declare and make known that the lands shown upon the approved farm unit plats of said Huntley Project will, on…

Any person filing more than one affidavit, or in other than his true name, shall be denied any privilege he might otherwise have secured under this drawing.

All persons are especially admonished from attempting to settle upon, occupy, or improve any of these lands prior to August 23, 1907, except those making entry in accordance with the terms of this Proclamation.

The Secretary of the Interior shall make and publish such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper to carry into full force and effect the manner of settlement, occupation and entry as herein provided for.

To fail to establish adequate lines on the Pacific is equivalent to proclaiming to the world that we have neither the ability nor the disposition to contend for our rightful share of the commerce of the Orient;

It is as absurd for the United States to depend upon foreign ships to distribute its products as it would be for a department store to depend upon wagons of a competing house to deliver its goods.

I earnestly hope for the enactment of some law like the bill in question.

Every ship is a missionary of trade

It would, of course, be impossible to preserve discipline in the Army save by pursuing precisely the course that in this case was pursued.

These crimes were certainly committed by somebody.

The facts did not merely warrant the action I took--they rendered such action imperative unless I was to prove false to my sworn duty.

The suggestion is on its face so ludicrously impossible that it is difficult to treat it as honestly made.

The making of this cut in a bank composed of light alluvial soil above a depression such as this without controlling devices was criminal negligence.

Nature has through many centuries protected this great depression from overflow, but the restless river, constantly shifting, has annually threatened to break through the banks.

The point to be especially emphasized is that prompt action must be taken, if any; otherwise the conditions may become so extreme as to be impracticable of remedy.

The results have been highly alarming, as it appears that if the water is not checked it will cut a very deep channel which, progressing upstream in a series of cataracts, will result in conditions such that the water can not be diverted…