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was wrong in a woman could not be right in a man. With great love and patience, and the most understanding sympathy and consideration, he combined insistence on discipline. He never physically punished me but once, but he was the only man of whom I was ever really afraid. I do not mean that it was a wrong fear, for he ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.771 | 0.9 | ["family"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280386 | [
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of the front hall, and then rush out to greet him; and we would troop into his room while he was dressing, to stay there as long as we were permitted, eagerly examining anything which came out of his pockets which could be regarded as an attractive novelty. Every child has fixed in his memory various details which stri... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.888 | ["family"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280421 | [
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sures." The word, and some of the trinkets themselves, passed on to the next generation. My own children, when small, used to troop into my room while I was dressing, and the gradually accumulating trinkets in the "ditty-box"—the gift of an enlisted man in the navy—always excited rapturous joy. On occasions of solemn f... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.827 | 0.86 | ["family"] | 471 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280451 | [
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d one pleasure I do not remember enjoying myself. When I came back from riding, the child who brought the bootjack would itself promptly get into the boots, and clump up and down the room with a delightful feeling of kinship with Jack of the seven-league strides. The punishing incident I have referred to happened when ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.85 | 0.882 | [] | 498 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280476 | [
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perfectly conscious that I had committed a crime. From the yard I went into the kitchen, got some dough from the cook, and crawled under the kitchen table. In a minute or two my father entered from the yard and asked where I was. The warm-hearted Irish cook had a characteristic contempt for "informers," but although sh... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.828 | 0.868 | ["family", "philosophy", "negotiation", "war_conflict"] | 484 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280516 | [
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mediately dropped on all fours and darted for me. I feebly heaved the dough at him, and, having the advantage of him because I could stand up under the table, got a fair start for the stairs, but was caught halfway up them. The punishment that ensued fitted the crime, and I hope—and believe—that it did me good. I never... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.892 | ["family", "philosophy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280548 | [
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I have ever met approached his combination of enjoyment of life and performance of duty. He and my mother were given to a hospitality that at that time was associated more commonly with southern than northern households; and, especially in their later years when they had moved up town, in the neighborhood of Central Pa... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.806 | 0.86 | ["family", "philosophy"] | 458 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280580 | [
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nd across the country, and was also a great whip. He usually drove four-in-hand, or else a spike team, that is, a pair with a third horse in the lead. I do not suppose that such a team exists now. The trap that he drove we always called the high phaeton. The wheels turned under in front. I have it yet. He drove long-ta... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.846 | 0.874 | ["management"] | 461 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280607 | [
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e resemblance to anything that would be seen now. My father always excelled in improving every spare half-hour or three-quarters of an hour, whether for work or enjoyment. Much of his four-in-hand driving was done in the summer afternoons when he would come out on the train from his business in New York. My mother and ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.89 | ["family"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280634 | [
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take chances. Generally they came out all right. Occasionally they did not; but he was even better at getting out of a scrape than into it. Once when we were driving into New York late at night the leaders stopped. He flicked them, and the next moment we could dimly make out that they had jumped. It then appeared that ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.623 | 0.862 | ["leadership"] | 432 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280661 | [
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t, resting on two barrels, but without a lantern. Over this board the leaders had jumped, and there was considerable excitement before we got the board taken off the barrels and resumed our way. When in the city on Thanksgiving or Christmas, my father was very apt to drive my mother and a couple of friends up to the ra... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.884 | ["family", "leadership", "resume", "education"] | 505 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280691 | [
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Miss Sattery's Night School for little Italians. At a very early age we children were taken with him and were required to help. He was a staunch friend of Charles Loring Brace, and was particularly interested in the Newsboys' Lodging-House and in the night schools and in getting the children off the streets and out on ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.884 | ["family", "education"] | 507 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280718 | [
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rom New York out West by Mr. Brace and my father. My father was greatly interested in the societies to prevent cruelty to children and cruelty to animals. On Sundays he had a mission class. On his way to it he used to drop us children at our Sunday-school in Dr. Adams's Presbyterian Church on Madison Square; I remember... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.846 | 0.864 | ["family", "education"] | 455 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280745 | [
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n he always reminded her of Greatheart in Bunyan. Under the spur of his example I taught a mission class myself for three years before going to college and for all four years that I was in college. I do not think I made much of a success of it. But the other day on getting out of a taxi in New York the chauffeur spoke ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.787 | 0.794 | ["education"] | 472 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280772 | [
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leased to find that he was an ardent Bull Mooser! My mother, Martha Bulloch, was a sweet, gracious, beautiful Southern woman, a delightful companion and beloved by everybody. She was entirely "unreconstructed" to the day of her death. Her mother, my grandmother, one of the dearest of old ladies, lived with us, and was ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.565 | 0.848 | ["family", "war_conflict"] | 446 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280799 | [
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rt towards us even when the occasion demanded it. Towards the close of the Civil War, although a very small boy, I grew to have a partial but alert understanding of the fact that the family were not one in their views about that conflict, my father being a strong Lincoln Republican; and once, when I felt that I had bee... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.742 | ["war_conflict", "family", "governance", "faith_spirituality"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280833 | [
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, when we all came to say our prayers before my mother in the evening. She was not only a most devoted mother, but was also blessed with a strong sense of humor, and she was too much amused to punish me; but I was warned not to repeat the offense, under penalty of my father's being informed—he being the dispenser of se... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.771 | 0.896 | ["family", "faith_spirituality", "war_conflict", "philosophy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280862 | [
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speak for you and the cubby-hole too!" There were three of us young children, and we used to sit with father on the sofa while he conducted morning prayers. The place between father and the arm of the sofa we called the "cubby-hole." The child who got that place we regarded as especially favored both in comfort and som... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.828 | 0.882 | ["family", "faith_spirituality"] | 478 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280890 | [
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side of father were outsiders for the time being. My aunt Anna, my mother's sister, lived with us. She was as devoted to us children as was my mother herself, and we were equally devoted to her in return. She taught us our lessons while we were little. She and my mother used to entertain us by the hour with tales of li... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.894 | ["family"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280917 | [
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ses, one of which was named Buena Vista in a fit of patriotic exaltation during the Mexican War; and of the queer goings-on in the Negro quarters. She knew all the "Br'er Rabbit" stories, and I was brought up on them. One of my uncles, Robert Roosevelt, was much struck with them, and took them down from her dictation, ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.847 | 0.872 | ["war_conflict"] | 468 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280944 | [
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e who in "Uncle Remus" made the stories immortal. My mother's two brothers, James Dunwoodie Bulloch and Irvine Bulloch, came to visit us shortly after the close of the war. Both came under assumed names, as they were among the Confederates who were at that time exempted from the amnesty. "Uncle Jimmy" Bulloch was a dea... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.659 | 0.872 | ["war_conflict", "faith_spirituality", "family", "philosophy"] | 495 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.280974 | [
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soul as ever lived, a veritable Colonel Newcome. He was an Admiral in the Confederate navy, and was the builder of the famous Confederate war vessel Alabama. My uncle Irvine Bulloch was a midshipman on the Alabama , and fired the last gun discharged from her batteries in the fight with the Kearsarge . Both of these unc... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.58 | 0.884 | ["war_conflict", "faith_spirituality", "philosophy"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281003 | [
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hases of the Civil War with entire fairness and generosity. But in English politics he promptly became a Tory of the most ultra-conservative school. Lincoln and Grant he could admire, but he would not listen to anything in favor of Mr. Gladstone. The only occasions on which I ever shook his faith in me were when I woul... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.844 | 0.852 | ["war_conflict", "faith_spirituality", "education"] | 438 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281047 | [
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falsehoods about Mr. Gladstone could not be true. My uncle was one of the best men I have ever known, and when I have sometimes been tempted to wonder how good people can believe of me the unjust and impossible things they do believe, I have consoled myself by thinking of Uncle Jimmy Bulloch's perfectly sincere convict... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.842 | 0.848 | [] | 422 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281075 | [
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nameless infamy in both public and private life. I was a sickly, delicate boy, suffered much from asthma, and frequently had to be taken away on trips to find a place where I could breathe. One of my memories is of my father walking up and down the room with me in his arms at night when I was a very small person, and o... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.842 | 0.77 | ["family", "education"] | 423 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281122 | [
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trying to help me. I went very little to school. I never went to the public schools, as my own children later did, both at the "Cove School" at Oyster Bay and at the "Ford School" in Washington. For a few months I attended Professor McMullen's school in Twentieth Street near the house where I was born, but most of the ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.829 | 0.888 | ["education", "family"] | 487 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281157 | [
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a loved and valued "mam'selle," in the household. When I was ten years old I made my first journey to Europe. My birthday was spent in Cologne, and in order to give me a thoroughly "party" feeling I remember that my mother put on full dress for my birthday dinner. I do not think I gained anything from this particular t... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.89 | ["family"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281197 | [
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ntains when we could get away from our elders, and in playing in the different hotels. Our one desire was to get back to America, and we regarded Europe with the most ignorant chauvinism and contempt. Four years later, however, I made another journey to Europe, and was old enough to enjoy it thoroughly and profit by it... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.847 | 0.872 | ["career"] | 471 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281227 | [
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rst day that I started on my career as zoologist. I was walking up Broadway, and as I passed the market to which I used sometimes to be sent before breakfast to get strawberries I suddenly saw a dead seal laid out on a slab of wood. That seal filled me with every possible feeling of romance and adventure. I asked where... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.896 | ["career", "philosophy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281255 | [
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I felt that this seal brought all these adventures in realistic fashion before me. As long as that seal remained there I haunted the neighborhood of the market day after day. I measured it, and I recall that, not having a tape measure, I had to do my best to get its girth with a folding pocket foot-rule, a difficult un... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.808 | 0.878 | ["crisis"] | 479 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281283 | [
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history of my own, on the strength of that seal. This, and subsequent natural histories, were written down in blank books in simplified spelling, wholly unpremeditated and unscientific. I had vague aspirations of in some way or another owning and preserving that seal, but they never got beyond the purely formless stage... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.868 | ["philosophy"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281313 | [
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of Natural History." The collections were at first kept in my room, until a rebellion on the part of the chambermaid received the approval of the higher authorities of the household and the collection was moved up to a kind of bookcase in the back hall upstairs. It was the ordinary small boy's collection of curios, qui... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.771 | 0.878 | ["family", "war_conflict"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281343 | [
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y always did in anything that could give me wholesome pleasure or help to develop me. The adventure of the seal and the novels of Mayne Reid together strengthened my instinctive interest in natural history. I was too young to understand much of Mayne Reid, excepting the adventure part and the natural history part—these... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.878 | ["family"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281372 | [
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oks, my father and mother having the good sense not to try to get me to read anything I did not like, unless it was in the way of study. I was given the chance to read books that they thought I ought to read, but if I did not like them I was then given some other good book that I did like. There were certain books that... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.806 | ["family", "education"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281401 | [
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he enjoyment compensated for the feeling of guilt. I was also forbidden to read the only one of Ouida's books which I wished to read—"Under Two Flags." I did read it, nevertheless, with greedy and fierce hope of coming on something unhealthy; but as a matter of fact all the parts that might have seemed unhealthy to an ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.828 | 0.87 | ["family"] | 477 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281428 | [
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ures. I think there ought to be children's books. I think that the child will like grown-up books also, and I do not believe a child's book is really good unless grown-ups get something out of it. For instance, there is a book I did not have when I was a child because it was not written. It is Laura E. Richard's "Nurse... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.888 | ["family"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281461 | [
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Mexico who Lost his Grandmother out in the Snow," the adventures of "The Owl, the Eel, and the Warming-Pan," and the extraordinary genealogy of the kangaroo whose "father was a whale with a feather in his tail who lived in the Greenland sea," while "his mother was a shark who kept very dark in the Gulf of Caribee." As ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.748 | ["family", "war_conflict"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281490 | [
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ept to this day unchanged, for I seriously doubt if any magazine for old or young has ever surpassed it. Both my wife and I have the bound volumes of Our Young Folks which we preserved from our youth. I have tried to read again the Mayne Reid books which I so dearly loved as a boy, only to find, alas! that it is imposs... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.841 | 0.866 | ["family"] | 414 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281518 | [
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over Our Young Folks now nearly as much as ever. "Cast Away in the Cold," "Grandfather's Struggle for a Homestead," "The William Henry Letters," and a dozen others like them were first-class, good healthy stories, interesting in the first place, and in the next place teaching manliness, decency, and good conduct. At th... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.868 | ["family"] | 510 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281547 | [
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fe," just as I worshiped "Little Men" and "Little Women" and "An Old-Fashioned Girl." This enjoyment of the gentler side of life did not prevent my reveling in such tales of adventure as Ballantyne's stories, or Marryat's "Midshipman Easy." I suppose everybody has kinks in him, and even as a child there were books whic... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.886 | [] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281572 | [
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ably the best part, I do not care for it now); whereas the second part, containing the adventures of Robinson Crusoe, with the wolves in the Pyrenees, and out in the Far East, simply fascinated me. What I did like in the first part were the adventures before Crusoe finally reached his island, the fight with the Sallee ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.802 | 0.7 | [] | 417 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281598 | [
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night taking their improbable bath in the ocean. Thanks to being already an embryo zoologist, I disliked the "Swiss Family Robinson" because of the wholly impossible collection of animals met by that worthy family as they ambled inland from the wreck. Even in poetry it was the relation of adventures that most appealed ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.787 | 0.864 | ["family"] | 469 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281628 | [
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poem, "The Saga of King Olaf," which absorbed me. This introduced me to Scandinavian literature; and I have never lost my interest in and affection for it. Among my first books was a volume of a hopelessly unscientific kind by Mayne Reid, about mammals, illustrated with pictures no more artistic than but quite as thril... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.828 | 0.872 | ["family", "education"] | 483 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281657 | [
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ccurate volume, he gave me a little book by J. G. Wood, the English writer of popular books on natural history, and then a larger one of his called "Homes Without Hands." Both of these were cherished possessions. They were studied eagerly; and they finally descended to my children. The "Homes Without Hands," by the way... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.878 | ["family", "networking", "education"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281686 | [
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odern theory of making education interesting and not letting it become a task, I endeavored to teach my eldest small boy one or two of his letters from the title-page. As the letter "H" appeared in the title an unusual number of times, I selected that to begin on, my effort being to keep the small boy interested, not t... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.803 | 0.712 | ["education"] | 427 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281713 | [
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nvince him that he was merely having a good time. Whether it was the theory or my method of applying it that was defective I do not know, but I certainly absolutely eradicated from his brain any ability to learn what "H" was; and long after he had learned all the other letters of the alphabet in the old-fashioned way, ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.808 | 0.872 | ["education", "philosophy"] | 479 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281748 | [
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under a hopeless disadvantage in studying nature. I was very near-sighted, so that the only things I could study were those I ran against or stumbled over. When I was about thirteen I was allowed to take lessons in taxidermy from a Mr. Bell, a tall, clean-shaven, white-haired old gentleman, as straight as an Indian, wh... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.821 | 0.848 | ["education", "philosophy"] | 413 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281777 | [
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a musty little shop, somewhat on the order of Mr. Venus's shop in "Our Mutual Friend," a little shop in which he had done very valuable work for science. This "vocational study," as I suppose it would be called by modern educators, spurred and directed my interest in collecting specimens for mounting and preservation. ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.827 | 0.874 | ["education"] | 471 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281805 | [
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things to shoot at which I could not see at all. One day they read aloud an in huge letters on a distant billboard, and I then realized that something was the matter, for not only was I unable to read the sign but I could not even see the letters. I spoke of this to my father, and soon afterwards got my first pair of ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.826 | 0.88 | ["war_conflict", "family"] | 455 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281837 | [
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tiful the world was until I got those spectacles. I had been a clumsy and awkward little boy, and while much of my clumsiness and awkwardness was doubtless due to general characteristics, a good deal of it was due to the fact that I could not see and yet was wholly ignorant that I was not seeing. The recollection of th... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.886 | ["war_conflict", "family", "education"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281866 | [
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cy in children, who are often unjustly blamed for being obstinate or unambitious, or mentally stupid. This same summer, too, I obtained various new books on mammals and birds, including the publications of Spencer Baird, for instance, and made an industrious book-study of the subject. I did not accomplish much in outdo... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.807 | 0.864 | ["family", "education"] | 472 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281896 | [
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e rest of the family for a second trip to Europe. We were living at Dobbs Ferry, on the Hudson. My gun was a breech-loading, pin-fire double-barrel, of French manufacture. It was an excellent gun for a clumsy and often absent-minded boy. There was no spring to open it, and if the mechanism became rusty it could be open... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.643 | 0.854 | ["family"] | 428 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281925 | [
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stuck they could be removed in the same fashion. If they were loaded, however, the result was not always happy, and I tattooed myself with partially unburned grains of powder more than once. When I was fourteen years old, in the winter of '72 and '73, I visited Europe for the second time, and this trip formed a really ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.884 | ["family", "education", "philosophy"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281953 | [
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nstantinople; and then we children spent the summer in a German family in Dresden. My first real collecting as a student of natural history was done in Egypt during this journey. By this time I had a good working knowledge of American bird life from the superficially scientific standpoint. I had no knowledge of the orn... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.886 | ["family", "education"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.281981 | [
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and in an appendix to his volume gave an account of his bird collection. I wish I could remember the name of the author now, for I owe that book very much. Without it I should have been collecting entirely in the dark, whereas with its aid I could generally find out what the birds were. My first knowledge of Latin was ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.806 | 0.874 | ["education"] | 457 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.282012 | [
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classified by the aid of such books as this one. The birds I obtained up the Nile and in Palestine represented merely the usual boy's collection. Some years afterward I gave them, together with the other ornithological specimens I had gathered, to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and I think some of them also... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.827 | 0.866 | ["war_conflict"] | 468 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.282044 | [
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t in both places and in other public collections. I doubt whether they have my original labels on them. With great pride the directors of the "Roosevelt Museum," consisting of myself and the two cousins aforesaid, had printed a set of Roosevelt Museum labels in pink ink preliminary to what was regarded as my adventurou... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.821 | 0.842 | [] | 413 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.282067 | [
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hat was really the chief zest to my Nile journey. I was old enough and had read enough to enjoy the temples and the desert scenery and the general feeling of romance; but this in time would have palled if I had not also had the serious work of collecting and preparing my specimens. Doubtless the family had their moment... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.851 | 0.88 | ["family"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.282095 | [
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on the skins the arsenical soap necessary for their preservation, partially washed it, and left it with the rest of my wash kit for my own personal use. I suppose that all growing boys tend to be grubby; but the ornithological small boy, or indeed the boy with the taste for natural history of any kind, is generally the... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.803 | 0.862 | [] | 432 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.282118 | [
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t that while in Egypt I suddenly started to grow. As there were no tailors up the Nile, when I got back to Cairo I needed a new outfit. But there was one suit of clothes too good to throw away, which we kept for a "change," and which was known as my "Smike suit," because it left my wrists and ankles as bare as those of... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.902 | ["governance", "family"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.282145 | [
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her the Municipal or the Saxon Government—I have forgotten which. It was hoped that in this way we would acquire some knowledge of the German language and literature. They were the very kindest family imaginable. I shall never forget the unwearied patience of the two daughters. The father and mother, and a shy, thin, s... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.872 | ["family", "governance", "education"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.282173 | [
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ose had been cut off in a duel and sewn on again. I learned a good deal of German here, in spite of myself, and above all I became fascinated with the Nibelungenlied. German prose never became really easy to me in the sense that French prose did, but for German poetry I cared as much as for English poetry. Above all, I... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.85 | 0.892 | ["diplomacy"] | 502 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.282201 | [
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me feel that the Germans were really foreigners. The affection, the Gemuthlichkeit (a quality which cannot be exactly expressed by any single English word), the capacity for hard work, the sense of duty, the delight in studying literature and science, the pride in the new Germany, the more than kind and friendly intere... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.72 | ["family", "diplomacy", "education"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.282228 | [
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e which I did not in the least define at the time, but which is very vivid still forty years later. When I got back to America, at the age of fifteen, I began serious study to enter Harvard under Mr. Arthur Cutler, who later founded the Cutler School in New York. I could not go to school because I knew so much less tha... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.902 | ["education"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.282298 | [
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French I was strong, but lamentably weak in Latin and Greek and mathematics. My grandfather had made his summer home in Oyster Bay a number of years before, and my father now made Oyster Bay the summer home of his family also. Along with my college preparatory studies I carried on the work of a practical student of nat... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.811 | 0.878 | ["family", "economy", "education"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.282328 | [
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ut to this day certain obscure ornithological publications may be found in which are recorded such items as, for instance, that on one occasion a fish-crow, and on another an Ipswich sparrow, were obtained by one Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., at Oyster Bay, on the shore of Long Island Sound. In the fall of 1876 I entered Ha... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.791 | 0.886 | [] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.282353 | [
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le in my actual studies which helped me in after life. More than one of my own sons have already profited by their friendship with certain of their masters in school or college. I certainly profited by my friendship with one of my tutors, Mr. Cutler; and in Harvard I owed much to the professor of English, Mr. A. S. Hil... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.823 | 0.708 | ["education"] | 429 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.282379 | [
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resident Eliot and very little of the professors. I ought to have gained much more than I did gain from writing the themes and forensics. My failure to do so may have been partly due to my taking no interest in the subjects. Before I left Harvard I was already writing one or two chapters of a book I afterwards publishe... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.845 | 0.868 | ["war_conflict"] | 447 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.282405 | [
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de a dictionary seem light reading by comparison. Still, they represented purpose and serious interest on my part, not the perfunctory effort to do well enough to get a certain mark; and corrections of them by a skilled older man would have impressed me and have commanded my respectful attention. But I was not sufficie... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.826 | 0.852 | [] | 458 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.282428 | [
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ed me—the character of the Gracchi, for instance. A very clever and studious lad would no doubt have done so, but I personally did not grow up to this particular subject until a good many years later. The frigate and sloop actions between the American and British sea-tigers of 1812 were much more within my grasp. I wor... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.831 | 0.878 | [] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.282452 | [
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with my feet firmly planted in dull and totally idea-proof resistance. I had at the time no idea of going into public life, and I never studied elocution or practiced debating. This was a loss to me in one way. In another way it was not. Personally I have not the slightest sympathy with debating contests in which each ... | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3335/3335-h/3335-h.htm | Theodore Roosevelt, by Theodore Roosevelt | gutenberg.org | 0.847 | 0.87 | [] | 474 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.282477 | [
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itizens of no nation possess greater energy and industrial ability. In no nation are the fundamental business conditions sounder than in ours at this very moment; and it is foolish, when such is the case, for people to hoard money instead of keeping it in sound banks; for it is such hoarding that is the immediate occas... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt's_Seventh_State_of_the_Union_Address | Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh State of the Union Address - Wikisource, the free online library | en.wikisource.org | 0.375 | 0.88 | ["crisis"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.290695 | [
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s and factories, to railroads and banks, to all our legitimate commercial enterprises. In any large body of men, however, there are certain to be some who are dishonest, and if the conditions are such that these men prosper or commit their misdeeds with impunity, their example is a very evil thing for the community. Wh... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt's_Seventh_State_of_the_Union_Address | Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh State of the Union Address - Wikisource, the free online library | en.wikisource.org | 0.396 | 0.874 | ["strategy"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.290745 | [
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re possible to punish those responsible for them. There may be honest differences of opinion as to many governmental policies; but surely there can be no such differences as to the need of unflinching perseverance in the war against successful dishonesty. In my Message to the Congress on December 5, 1905, I said: "If t... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt's_Seventh_State_of_the_Union_Address | Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh State of the Union Address - Wikisource, the free online library | en.wikisource.org | 0.609 | 0.874 | ["governance", "salary", "war_conflict"] | 489 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.290804 | [
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r manual, whether he be farmer or wage-worker, business man or professional man. "In our industrial and social system the interests of all men are so closely intertwined that in the immense majority of cases a straight-dealing man, who by his efficiency, by his ingenuity and industry, benefits himself, must also benefi... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt's_Seventh_State_of_the_Union_Address | Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh State of the Union Address - Wikisource, the free online library | en.wikisource.org | 0.335 | 0.872 | ["economy", "crisis", "career", "salary"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.290859 | [
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y benefit which comes to the less able and less fortunate must of necessity come even more to the more able and more fortunate. If, therefore, the less fortunate man is moved by envy of his more fortunate brother to strike at the conditions under which they have both, though unequally, prospered, the result will assure... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt's_Seventh_State_of_the_Union_Address | Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh State of the Union Address - Wikisource, the free online library | en.wikisource.org | 0.648 | 0.888 | [] | 502 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.290911 | [
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s a whole, we must all go up or go down together. "Yet, while not merely admitting, but insisting upon this, it is also true that where there is no governmental restraint or supervision some of the exceptional men use their energies, not in ways that are for the common good, but in ways which tell against this common g... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt's_Seventh_State_of_the_Union_Address | Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh State of the Union Address - Wikisource, the free online library | en.wikisource.org | 0.639 | 0.888 | ["strategy", "governance"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.290965 | [
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r of necessity to give to the sovereign—that is, to the Government, which represents the people as a whole—some effective power of supervision over their corporate use. In order to insure a healthy social and industrial life, every big corporation should be held responsible by, and be accountable to, some sovereign str... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt's_Seventh_State_of_the_Union_Address | Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh State of the Union Address - Wikisource, the free online library | en.wikisource.org | 0.639 | 0.876 | ["communication", "rhetoric", "strategy", "crisis", "governance"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.291027 | [
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ination will be not only useless, but in the end vicious, because of the contempt for law which the failure to enforce law inevitably produces. We should, moreover, recognize in cordial and ample fashion the immense good effected by corporate agencies in a country such as ours, and the wealth of intellect, energy, and ... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt's_Seventh_State_of_the_Union_Address | Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh State of the Union Address - Wikisource, the free online library | en.wikisource.org | 0.354 | 0.696 | ["governance", "economy"] | 440 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.291080 | [
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e of the public, by their officers and directors. The corporation has come to stay, just as the trade union has come to stay. Each can do and has done great good. Each should be favored so long as it does good. But each should be sharply checked where it acts against law and justice. "The makers of our National Constit... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt's_Seventh_State_of_the_Union_Address | Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh State of the Union Address - Wikisource, the free online library | en.wikisource.org | 0.334 | 0.856 | ["governance", "economy", "communication", "social_justice", "philosophy"] | 445 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.291135 | [
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exercised by a sovereign whose jurisdiction is coextensive with the field of work of the corporations—that is, by the National Government. I believe that this regulation and supervision can be obtained by the enactment of law by the Congress. Our steady aim should be by legislation, cautiously and carefully undertaken,... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt's_Seventh_State_of_the_Union_Address | Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh State of the Union Address - Wikisource, the free online library | en.wikisource.org | 0.786 | 0.844 | ["governance", "communication", "strategy", "innovation", "philosophy"] | 463 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.291188 | [
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tive action. "This is only in form an innovation. In substance it is merely a restoration; for from the earliest time such regulation of industrial activities has been recognized in the action of the lawmaking bodies; and all that I propose is to meet the changed conditions in such manner as will prevent the Commonweal... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt's_Seventh_State_of_the_Union_Address | Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh State of the Union Address - Wikisource, the free online library | en.wikisource.org | 0.377 | 0.86 | ["communication", "crisis", "innovation", "governance", "economy"] | 470 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.291248 | [
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ng to the detriment of the public, as well as such supervision and regulation as will prevent other abuses in no way connected with restriction of competition." I have called your attention in these quotations to what I have already said because I am satisfied that it is the duty of the National Government to embody in... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt's_Seventh_State_of_the_Union_Address | Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh State of the Union Address - Wikisource, the free online library | en.wikisource.org | 0.811 | 0.876 | ["strategy", "ethics", "governance", "philosophy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.291305 | [
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t vital need is in connection with the railroads. As to these, in my judgment there should now be either a national incorporation act or a law licensing railway companies to engage in interstate commerce upon certain conditions. The law should be so framed as to give to the Interstate Commerce Commission power to pass ... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt's_Seventh_State_of_the_Union_Address | Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh State of the Union Address - Wikisource, the free online library | en.wikisource.org | 0.644 | 0.872 | ["decision_making", "governance", "economy", "communication", "networking"] | 507 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.291358 | [
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ry, to make a physical valuation of any railroad. As I stated in my Message to the Congress a year ago, railroads should be given power to enter into agreements, subject to these argreements being made public in minute detail and to the consent of the Interstate Commerce Commission being first obtained. Until the Natio... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt's_Seventh_State_of_the_Union_Address | Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh State of the Union Address - Wikisource, the free online library | en.wikisource.org | 0.599 | 0.874 | ["governance", "economy", "negotiation"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.291413 | [
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e Commission will work in harmony with the several State commissions, each within its own province, to achieve the desired end. Moreover, in my judgment there should be additional legislation looking to the proper control of the great business concerns engaged in interstate business, this control to be exercised for th... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt's_Seventh_State_of_the_Union_Address | Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh State of the Union Address - Wikisource, the free online library | en.wikisource.org | 0.622 | 0.836 | ["decision_making"] | 422 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.291467 | [
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ffect upon the railway operations of the country. Such associations, in fact, exist now as they did before these decisions, and with the same general effect. In justice to all parties, we ought probably to add that it is difficult to see how our interstate railways could be operated with due regard to the interest of t... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt's_Seventh_State_of_the_Union_Address | Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh State of the Union Address - Wikisource, the free online library | en.wikisource.org | 0.599 | 0.878 | ["decision_making", "crisis", "governance", "social_justice", "philosophy"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.291692 | [
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the Supreme Court is such that the business of the country can not be conducted without breaking it." As I have elsewhere said: 'All this is substantially what I have said over and over again. Surely it ought not to be necessary to say that it in no shape or way represents any hostility to corporations as such. On the ... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt's_Seventh_State_of_the_Union_Address | Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh State of the Union Address - Wikisource, the free online library | en.wikisource.org | 0.83 | 0.878 | ["communication", "economy", "rhetoric"] | 503 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.291745 | [
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odern conditions and of our National development. As far as in my ability lies my endeavor is and will be to prevent abuse of power by either and to favor both so long as they do well. The aim of the National Government is quite as much to favor and protect honest corporations, honest business men of wealth, as to brin... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt's_Seventh_State_of_the_Union_Address | Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh State of the Union Address - Wikisource, the free online library | en.wikisource.org | 0.831 | 0.88 | ["communication", "governance", "rhetoric", "economy", "social_justice"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.291801 | [
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nestly expended for legitimate business purposes. To confer upon the National Government the power for which I ask would be a check upon overcapitalization and upon the clever gamblers who benefit by overcapitalization. But it alone would mean an increase in the value, an increase in the safety of the stocks and bonds ... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt's_Seventh_State_of_the_Union_Address | Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh State of the Union Address - Wikisource, the free online library | en.wikisource.org | 0.825 | 0.846 | ["governance"] | 453 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.291832 | [
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in the past represent wrongs not merely to the general public, but, above all, wrongs to fair-dealing and honest corporations and men of wealth, because they excite a popular anger and distrust which from the very nature of the case tends to include in the sweep of its resentment good and bad alike. From the standpoint... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt's_Seventh_State_of_the_Union_Address | Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh State of the Union Address - Wikisource, the free online library | en.wikisource.org | 0.355 | 0.728 | ["communication", "economy", "philosophy", "rhetoric"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.291921 | [
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d unthinking, it also becomes not merely unwise and unfair, but calculated to defeat the very ends which those feeling it have in view. There has been plenty of dishonest work by corporations in the past. There will not be the slightest let-up in the effort to hunt down and punish every dishonest man. But the bulk of o... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt's_Seventh_State_of_the_Union_Address | Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh State of the Union Address - Wikisource, the free online library | en.wikisource.org | 0.375 | 0.882 | ["communication", "war_conflict", "rhetoric"] | 512 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.291948 | [
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control of the production, sale, or distribution of any one or more of the prime necessities of life or articles of general use and necessity. Such combinations are against public policy; they violate the common law; the doors of the courts are closed to those who are parties to them, and I believe the Congress can clo... | https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt's_Seventh_State_of_the_Union_Address | Theodore Roosevelt's Seventh State of the Union Address - Wikisource, the free online library | en.wikisource.org | 0.6 | 0.872 | ["governance", "economy"] | 511 | FDR | personality | 2026-03-02T16:18:42.291977 | [
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