Authors: Theodore Roosevelt

1917–1929

Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography

Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography (New York: Macmillan, 1913), https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uiug.30112004024292. . . .The most important factor in getting the right spirit in my administration, next to the insistence upon

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1917–1929

The New Nationalism

Source: Theodore Roosevelt, The New Nationalism (New York: Outlook, 1910), 3–33, available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t01z4xz1g&view=1up &seq=5. We come here today to commemorate one of the epoch-making events of the long struggle for

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1917–1929

Annual Message to Congress (1907)

Source: Theodore Roosevelt, Seventh Annual Message, online, by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/206218. The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute

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1877–1917

The New Nationalism

Source: Theodore Roosevelt, The New Nationalism (New York: Outlook, 1910), 3–33, available online at the Hathi Trust Digital Library: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t01z4xz1g&view=1up&seq=5. We come here today to commemorate one of the epoch-making

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1877–1917

The Right of the People to Rule

Source: Theodore Roosevelt, “The Right of the People to Rule,” Outlook 100 (March 1912): 618–23, available online at the Hathi Trust Digital Library: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015026764921&view=1up&seq=660. The great fundamental issue now before

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1917–1929

The New Nationalism

Source: Theodore Roosevelt, The New Nationalism (The Outlook Company, New York: 1910), 3-33. … Nothing is more true than that excess of every kind is followed by reaction; a fact

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1917–1929

On the Source of Executive Power

Source: Theodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography of Theodore Roosevelt, ed., Stephen Brennan (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011), 304–10; William Howard Taft, Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (New York: Columbia University

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