Theodore Roosevelt

The Bull Moose speech (Assasination attempt)

Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that…

The New Nationalism

We come here to-day to commemorate one of the epochmaking events of the long struggle for the rights of…

Citizenship in a Republic

General Westmoreland, General Grove, distinguished guests, and gentlemen of the Corps! As I was leaving the hotel this morning, a…

The Man with the Muck Rake

Over a century ago Washington laid the corner stone of the Capitol in what was then little more than…

First Inaugural Adress

MY fellow-citizens, no people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently,…

State of the Union Address

The Nation continues to enjoy noteworthy prosperity. Such prosperity is of course primarily due to the high individual average…

Strength and Decency

I am particularly glad to see such a society as this flourishing as your society has flourished, because the future…

Controlling the Trusts

The Congress assembles this year under the shadow of a great calamity. On the sixth of September, President McKinley was…

The Strenuous Life

In speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the West, men of the State which gave to…

The Duties of American Citizenship

Of course, in one sense, the first essential for a man’s being a good citizen is his possession of…