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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Apr 22, 1910

Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Apr 22, 1910

We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far as is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Apr 22, 1910

Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Apr 22, 1910

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Apr 22, 1910

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Apr 22, 1910

The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Mar 1, 1909

I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested... do proclaim that the said lands are hereby added to the Apache National Forest.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Mar 1, 1909

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, 'An Act…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Mar 1, 1909

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do proclaim that the said lands are…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Mar 1, 1909

The public good will be promoted by including in the Apache National Forest certain lands within the Territory of Arizona.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Mar 1, 1909

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress, do proclaim that the said lands are hereby added to the Trinity National Forest

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Mar 1, 1909

By virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, 'An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Mar 1, 1909

By virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress, I do proclaim that the said lands are hereby added to the Sitgreaves National Forest

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Mar 1, 1909

Such National Forest so enlarged shall, except as hereinafter provided, be subject to all the laws affecting National Forests.

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