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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Mar 12, 1905

Into the woman's keeping is committed the destiny of the generations to come after us.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Mar 12, 1905

No piled-up wealth, no splendor of material growth, no brilliance of artistic development, will permanently avail any people unless its home life is healthy, unless the average man possesses honesty, courage, common sense, and decency.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Mar 12, 1905

But the nation is in a bad way if there is no real home, if the family is not of the right kind; if the man is not a good husband and father, if he is brutal or cowardly or selfish, if the woman has lost her sense of duty, if she is sunk…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Mar 12, 1905

No matter what that occupation may be, as long as there is a real home and as long as those who make up that home do their duty to one another, to their neighbors and to the State, it is of minor consequence whether the man's trade is…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Mar 12, 1905

No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Mar 12, 1905

The woman who is a good wife, a good mother, is entitled to our respect as is no one else; but she is entitled to it only because, and so long as, she is worthy of it.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Mar 11, 1905

No greater work can be done by a philanthropic or religious society than to stretch out the helping hand to the man and the woman who come here to this country to become citizens.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Mar 9, 1905

It is hereby ordered that the following described lands situated in the State of Utah, be, and the same are hereby, withheld from sale and settlement and set apart for Indian purposes, as an addition to the Navaho Indian Reservation

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Mar 5, 1905

This treaty was entered into at the earnest request of Santo Domingo itself, and is designed to afford Santo Domingo relief and assistance.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Mar 5, 1905

This treaty affords the most practicable means of obtaining payment for the just claims of American citizens.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Mar 5, 1905

The benefit to the United States will consist chiefly in the tendency under the treaty to secure stability, order, and prosperity in Santo Domingo.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Mar 5, 1905

This treaty offers the only method for preventing the collection of fraudulent debts, whether owed to Americans or to citizens of other nations.

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