More from Theodore Roosevelt

  1. The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as the…
  2. We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for the consumers.…
  3. Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may re…
  4. Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will of the people. From these great tasks both of the old part…
  5. It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better.…
  6. We stand equally against government by a plutocracy and government by a mob. There is something to be said for government by a great aristo…
  7. To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result…
  8. If I must choose between righteousness and peace I choose righteousness.

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