Teddy Tweets

“I believe with all my heart that the American people are fit for complete self-government.”

Speech in Columbus, OH February 21, 1912

“We need absolute honesty in public life; and we shall not get it until we remember that truth-telling must go hand in hand with it.”

Outlook May 12, 1900

“In the long run, the man who makes a substantial contribution toward uplifting any part of the community has helped to uplift all of the community.”

Preface to Booker T. Washington August 28, 1916

“The one great reason for our having succeeded as no other people ever has, is to be found in that common sense which has enabled us to preserve the largest possible individual freedom.”

Life of Gouverneur Morris 1888

“There is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us.”

Speech in Osawatomie, KS August 31, 1910

“The object of government is the welfare of the people.”

Speech in Chicago April 10, 1899

“We should discourage driving property out of the state by unwise taxation, or levying a tax which is in effect largely a tax upon honesty.”

Annual message to the Legislature January 2, 1899

“The first requisite for the welfare of any community is justice.”

Outlook February 25, 1911

“A strong and wise people will study its own failures no less than its triumphs, for there is wisdom to be learned from the study of both.”

Sixth Annual Message in Washington December 3, 1906

“The republic cannot stand if honesty and decency do not prevail alike in public and private life.”

Speech in Galena, IL April 27, 1900