Quotations, Slogans, Mottoes: 1900- 1909

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1901: Then Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, foreseeing
the methods he would use to deal both with foreign
powers in the Western Hemisphere and big business.

1901: Senator Mark Hanna following the swearing in of Roosevelt, reminding people he had warned McKinley
it was a mistake to nominate that 'wild man.'

1901: Humorist 'Mr. Martin Dooley' (Finley Peter Dunne)
mocking Roosevelt whose actions against
the trusts were not as radical as his rhetoric.

1902: A slogan of Mark Hanna that had been thought to have been used in the 1900 reelection campaign; but actually wasn't popularized until 1902, presumably with reference to his policies.

1902: Thomas Alva Edison,
the Wizard of Menlo Park,
who worked for days at a time, only
stopping for brief naps, and had 1093 patents.

1902: From the Helen Keller's autobiography,
The Story of My Life, recounting
how her soul was awakened and set free.

1903: W.E.B. DuBois, the first African American Harvard graduate, on what it is like to be an American and a Negro;
from his book The Souls of Black Folk.

1903: W.E.B. DuBois, on the portion of the Black race
that must be made leaders, in order to uplift the rest.

1903: Roosevelt's motto used in many different contexts, on what veterans deserved, and on what people deserved from corporations, and on what the people in general deserved.

1904: Roosevelt on his plans for 1908.

1904: Entire text of telegram sent by Secretary
John Hay to the Sultan of Morocco.

1904: Roosevelt's message to Congress, establishing what became known as the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine; shortly thereafter, the US took over customs houses
of the DR to prevent European countries from
forcibly collecting the money they were owed.

1905: John D. Rockefeller in an interview in which he also said that it was his duty to 'to use the money I make for the good
of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.'

1905: Tammany Hall politician George Washington Plunkitt's definition of 'honest graft.'

1905: From the preamble to the constitution of the radical labor organization known as the Industrial Workers of the World,
which also called for the abolishment of the wage system.

1906: President Roosevelt, on the difficulty of controlling his daughter Alice, and of attending his duties as President.

1906: President Roosevelt coining a term he had
borrowed from John Buynan's Pilgrim's Progress.

1907: 'The Field Artillery Song' or 'The Caisson Song'

1908: Baseball's national anthem, composed by Albert Von Tilzer and Jack Norworth. (William Howard Taft became the first president to throw an opening pitch in a 1910
game between Washington and Philadelphia.)

1909: From President William Howard Taft's inaugural address, lauding the progress of African Americans.