Teddy Roosevelt

Honor, thrice honor to those who for three generations, during the period of this people's great expansion, have seen that the force of the living truth expanded as the nation expanded!

We intend to see that it has all the aid we can give it, and I trust and believe that our people will, through their national legislature, see to it very shortly that Cuba has the advantage of entering into peculiarly close relations with…

We have a right to expect that you will show your faith by your works; that the people who have the inestimable advantages of the church-life and the home-life should be made to remember that as much has been given them, much will be…

Every earnest and zealous believer, every man or woman who is a doer of the word and not a hearer only, is a lifelong missionary in his or her field of labor—a missionary by precept, and, by what counts a thousand fold more than precept…

The century that has closed has seen the conquest of this continent by our people.

We must have thrift, business energy, business enterprise and all that spring from them, as the foundation upon which we are to build the great national superstructure.

It is a pleasure on behalf of the people of the United States to greet you and bid you welcome on this hundredth anniversary.

Napoleon said that in war the moral was to the material as ten to one; and it is just exactly as true in civil and social life.

We have a right to expect that you will show your faith by your works.

I am glad to have the chance of greeting you to-night.

It is well for us that when there comes a great work in peace or in war we have the army as an instrument for it.

Without the work that you did the work of the men who fought the Revolution to a successful close would have meant nothing.

The loyalty that counts is the loyalty which shows itself in deeds rather than in words.

The man who builds up is greater than he who tears down.

Doing the duty well is what counts.

Nothing more need be said than has been said already by those who have addressed you this afternoon.

It is indeed appropriate that the Methodists of America...should found this great university in the city of Washington.

It is indeed appropriate that the Methodists of America—the men belonging to that religious organization which furnished the pioneers in carving out of the West what is now the heart of the great American Republic—should found this great…

I thank you for having given me the opportunity this afternoon to come before you and to lay the corner-stone of this building.

It is hereby ordered that upon Wednesday, the 21st instant, such employees of the Executive Departments, the Government Printing Office, and the Navy Yard and Station at Washington, D.C., as served in the military or naval service of the…

It is hereby ordered that such employees of the Executive Departments, the Government Printing Office, and the Navy Yard and Station at Washington, D.C., as served in the Military or Navy service of the United States in the late Civil War…

The disaster is complete; that the city of St. Pierre has ceased to exist.

For this purpose I recommend that an appropriation of $500,000 be made, to be immediately available.

I earnestly commend this case of unexampled disaster to the generous consideration of the Congress.

The disaster is complete; that the city of St. Pierre has ceased to exist; and that the American consul and his family have perished.