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Postmaster General Cortelyou sends President Roosevelt an amusing version of the “big stick” adage from Artemus Ward.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-17
This quotation by Booker T. Washington encourages people to work hard every day to reach “pure, unselfish useful living.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-01
The quote from Dickens should be filed under “Lodge” with a cross reference to “Dickens.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-03-02
President Roosevelt wishes he had used the quotation from Adam Bede. He is glad to hear his godchild is doing well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-03-13
West replies to President Roosevelt’s note asking if West was quoted correctly in the Congressional Record.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-16
Theodore Roosevelt wishes that he not be quoted to President Taft. Roosevelt believes “much more harm comes from retaining incompetent men, than from turning men out for the wrong reasons.”
Massachusetts Historical Society
1911-12-05
This postcard features a quote by Theodore Roosevelt and an illustration of a cat on a tree branch.
1910
The quote on this postcards reads: “The power of accepting individual responsibility and yet of acting in conjunction with others, courage and resolution-these are the qualities which mark a masterful people.”
1910
The Theodore Roosevelt quote on this postcards reads: “Sentimentality is the most broken reed upon which righteousness can lean.”
1910
The Theodore Roosevelt quote on this postcard reads: “Moreover, and above all, let us remember that words count only when they give expression to deeds.”
1910
The Theodore Roosevelt quote on this postcard reads: “The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.”
1910
The Theodore Roosevelt quote on this postcard reads: “We believe that our ideals should be high, but not so high as to make it impossible measurably to realize them.”
1910
The Theodore Roosevelt quote on this postcard reads: “It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.”
1910
The Theodore Roosevelt quote on this postcard reads: “There is need of a sound body and even more need of a sound mind. But above mind and above body stands character.”
1910
The Theodore Roosevelt quote on this postcard reads: “True liberty shows itself to best advantage in protecting the rights of others.”
1910
Postcard featuring a color portrait of Theodore Roosevelt in a golden frame. Below the portrait is a quote from Roosevelt, “All of us, no matter from which land our parents came, no matter in what way we may severally worship our Creator, must stand shoulder to shoulder in a United America.” The reverse of the card indicates that it was published by the George E. Keith Company “Makers of Walk-Over Shoes.”
1920-1950
Postcard with a quotation from Theodore Roosevelt’s essay, “What We Can Expect of the American Boy,” which appeared in St. Nicholas Magazine (May 1900). The postcard includes the line, “don’t foul and don’t shirk, but hit the line hard.” Ida supposes “D. D.” is “reading all the president’s [sic] messages” and so sends him this one.
1908-02-14
Postcard includes a portrait of Theodore Roosevelt framed in green. The quote “Fearless, honest, Capable, true; A foe to monopoly, But a friend to you” is rimmed in red.
1907-1914
A large parrot with New York Governor David B. Hill’s face perches on a stand next to President Cleveland’s desk. The parrot fills the air with its cry, “A Public Office is a Public Trust,” repeating a statement once made by Cleveland and that appears on a sign on his desk. President Cleveland is sitting at the desk with his hands over his ears. Caption: Will this political poll-parrot ever stop imitating President Cleveland?
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1886-01-13
Commissioner Roosevelt thanks F. M. Ives for the Barras quote and agrees that a free hand is needed to reorganize the New York City Police Department.
1895-09-28