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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 8, 1903

I believe in you with all my heart and soul, and I believe that your future will be even greater than your past.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 8, 1903

We have begun to take our position as a world power, a power situated on a continent fronting on two oceans, and we must have a navy to assert our position.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 8, 1903

The business man or politician who does not tell the truth cheats; and for the cheat we should have no use in any walk of life.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 7, 1903

In the war you had to have patriotism, but there was but little to be made of the man who was patriotic but who had a tendency to run away.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 7, 1903

In saying good-by to you I want to say that it has been the greatest pleasure to see you.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 7, 1903

In any regiment the man who has no loyalty to his fellows, no spirit of devotion to the flag, no desire to see the regiment stand high, to do his duty and see his fellows rise with him, that man, no matter how brave, or how able, is a…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 7, 1903

Every college should strive to bring to development among the students the capacity to do good original work.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 7, 1903

Ours is a government of equal rights under the law, guaranteeing those rights to each man so long as he in his turn refrains from wronging his brother.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 7, 1903

I always envy you men of the Grand Army because you do not have to preach; you practiced.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 7, 1903

To think of the well-nigh incredible fact that all of this that I have been looking at—the city, the development of the country—that it has all occurred within twenty years.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 7, 1903

We can solve aright all the difficult problems that come up because of and through our modern civilization.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 7, 1903

I believe in the Monroe doctrine, and I believe in it not as an empty formula of words, but as something we are ready to make good by deeds.

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