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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Jun 2, 1903

The American Navy was able in 1898 to add a new page to the honor of our republic because it had been built up during the preceding dozen years.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Jun 1, 1903

When the hand of the Lord is heavy upon any body of men, the wisdom of man can do but little.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Jun 1, 1903

We have Biblical authority, as well as the authority of common sense, for the statement that the rain falls on the just and the unjust alike.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Jun 1, 1903

We shall keep in the run, not only of abiding but of increasing prosperity, if as a people we only keep our sanity.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 31, 1903

And again I wish to thank you for these splendid gifts which will commemorate as pleasant a forty-eight hours as any President ever spent since the White House was built.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 29, 1903

We can not afford, if we are to make this republic true to its promise, if we are to make its mighty future as essentially great as is its past, we cannot, as citizens, afford to sunder in the deep matters along lines other than the lines…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 29, 1903

In the marches, you remember, as recruits you found about midday the blanket was heavy, you were tempted to throw it away, and by midnight you wished you had two of them.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 29, 1903

It is a fitting thing to be introduced on Decoration Day by a United States senator, who not only served in the great Civil War, but to whom it was given to win the highest treasure that can come to any American soldier, the medal of honor…

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