Who is a Progressive?
Roosevelt, Theodore. “Who Is a Progressive?” The Outlook, April 13, 1912. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.32106012661507?urlappend=%3Bseq=841%3Bownerid=9007199271941056-847 In his recent speech at Philadelphia President Taft stated that he was a Progressive, and this raises the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Convention Between the US And Panama (Panama Canal)
For the Construction of a Ship Canal to Connect the Waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Signed at Washington, November 18, 1903. Ratification advised by the Senate, February 23, […]
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 […]
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Fourth Annual Message to Congress, December 6, 1904. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=29545 To the Senate and House of Representatives: … It is not true that the United States feels any land hunger or […]
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 […]