Teddy Roosevelt

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.

There were other crises in which to have gone wrong would have meant disaster; but this was the one crisis in which to have gone wrong would have meant not merely disaster but annihilation.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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…

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;

But in addition to dying for the nation you must be willing and anxious to live for the nation, or the nation will be badly off.

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…

It is an admirable thing to have wealth if we use it aright and understand its relative value compared to the things of the spirit.