All cruelty is forbidden, and all harshness beyond what is called for by need.

Peace and freedom—are there two better objects for which a soldier can fight?

Just at this moment the Army of the United States, led by men who served among you in the great war, is carrying to completion a small but peculiarly trying and difficult war.

It is a good custom for our country to have certain solemn holidays in commemoration of our greatest men and of the greatest crises in our history.

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested, do hereby declare and make known that the Executive Orders dated December 57, 1875, and December 29, 1891, are so far modified as…

I am sure that I give utterance to the sentiments of every citizen of the United States.

I extend to you on behalf of the people of the United States, the warmest and most cordial greeting.

I am sure, my fellow citizens, that you welcome the chance which brings it about that this embassy of the French people should come to our shores.

I beg to express my acknowledgments to the embassy that has come here.

We prize this fresh proof of the friendship of the French people.

We appreciate to the full all that is implied in this embassy.

The American people, through me, extend their thanks to you.

I am sure I speak for the American navy when I say it has been a source of pleasure that such a splendid specimen of French naval architecture as the Gaulois has visited our shores on such a friendly mission.

We appreciate what France has done in sending to our shores on this occasion such a magnificent warship.

Let me, on behalf of all the people of the United States, and with the certain conviction that I have expressed their sentiments, drink to the health of President Loubet and to the continued prosperity of the mighty nation of which he is…

It has been a source of valued information to be permitted to see and inspect this splendid French vessel.

I thank you personally for the courtesy which has been extended to me.

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Medicine Bow Forest Reserve.

It is a pleasure to be here this afternoon to accept in the name of the nation the monument put up by your society to the memory of those who fell in the war with Spain.

I think that one lesson every one who was capable of learning any thing learned from his experience in that war was the old, old lesson that we need to apply in peace quite as much—the lesson that the man who does not care to do any act…

It is not merely a great thing, but an indispensable thing that the nation' s citizens should be ready and willing to die for it in time of need; and the presence of no other quality could atone for the lack of such readiness to lay down…

It is not merely a great thing, but an indispensable thing that the nation's citizens should be ready and willing to die for it in time of need;

What we need most in this Republic is not special genius, not unusual brilliancy, but the honest and upright adherence on the part of the mass of the citizens and of their representatives to the fundamental laws of private and public…

We shall succeed or fail in making this Republic what it should be made—I will go a little further than that—what it shall and must be made, accordingly as we do or do not seriously and resolutely set ourselves to do the tasks of…

It is a pleasure to be here this afternoon to accept in the name of the nation the monument put up by your society to the memory of those who fell in the war with Spain;