Authors: Theodore Roosevelt

1917–1929

Inaugural Address (1905)

Theodore Roosevelt, Inaugural Address Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/206052 MY fellow-citizens, no people on earth have more cause to be thankful than

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The Heirs of Abraham Lincoln

The Progressive movement which culminated last August in the creation of the Progressive party is no mere sign of temporary political discontent, it is a manifestation of the eternal forces

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National Life and Character

In National Life and Character; a Forecast, Mr. Charles H. Pearson, late fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and sometime Minister of Education in Victoria, has produced one of the most

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A Charter for Democracy

I am profoundly sensible of the honor you have done me in asking me to address you. You are engaged in the fundamental work of self—government; you are engaged in

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True Americanism

Teddy Roosevelt, “True Americanism,” Forum Magazine (April 1894). https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31175021953685&seq=43 PATRIOTISM was once defined as “the last refuge of a scoundrel”; and somebody has recently remarked that when Dr. Johnson[1] gave this definition he

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The Strenuous Life

In speaking to you, men of the greatest city of the West, men of the State which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all

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