Theodore Roosevelt — Speeches↗

TR | Primary Source The Duties of American Citizenship, 1883 TR calls on Americans to participate in political life.

THEODORE ROOSEVELT, “THE STRENUOUS LIFE” (10 April 1899) [1] 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...

In his admirable series of studies of Twentieth century problems Dr.

In speaking on Labor Day at the annual fair of the New York State Agricultural Association, it is natural to keep especially in mind the two bodies who compose the majority of our people and upon...

Inaugural Address of Theodore Roosevelt SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1905 My fellow-citizens, no people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of...

Theodore Roosevelt The Man with the Muck-rake delivered 14 April 1906 click for pdf Over a century ago Washington laid the corner stone of the Capitol in what was then little more than a tract of...

THEODORE ROOSEVELT: “CONSERVATION AS A NATIONAL DUTY” (13 MAY 1908) [1] Governors of the several States; and Gentlemen: [2] I welcome you to this Conference at the White House.

Strange and impressive associations rise in the mind of a man from the New World who speaks before this august body in this ancient institution of learning.

Source: Theodore Roosevelt, The New Nationalism (The Outlook Company, New York: 1910), 3-33.

Nobel Lecture * May 5, 1910 International Peace It is with peculiar pleasure that I stand here today to express the deep appreciation I feel of the high honor conferred upon me by the...

A Charter of Democracy (excerpt) – Speech by former president Theodore Roosevelt Speech before the Ohio Constitutional Convention | February 21, 1912 Full speech available here .

Audio mp3 of Excerpted 1912 Recording of Address The great fundamental issue now before before our people can be stated briefly.

FRIENDS, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.