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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 28, 1903

I am particularly glad to have the chance to speak to you here in this city, in Utah, this morning.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 28, 1903

The greatest lesson which the American body politic need take to heart, at the beginning of the twentieth century, is that it is out of the question permanently for our people to progress save on lines that tell for the progression of all.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 28, 1903

Far from agriculture properly exhausting the land, it is always the sign of a vicious system of agriculture if the land is rendered poorer by it.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 28, 1903

I believe in the Monroe Doctrine with all my heart and soul, and I intend to see that it is made good.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 28, 1903

We must play a big part. We can play it badly or play it well—but play it we have got to.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 27, 1903

I do not believe that Congress has for many years passed any law relating to our internal development so wise as the irrigation law of a year ago.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 27, 1903

No law that the wit of man has even devised can make or ever will make a fool wise, or a coward brave, or a weakling strong.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 27, 1903

I think I was a pretty good American when I came, but I am going away a better American.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 27, 1903

I doubt if there is any State which will profit more by the increase in the application of irrigation to our needs than is the case with the State of Idaho.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 27, 1903

In this country we need above all things to show our power to act on one's own individual responsibility, each to care for himself, to be able to handle his own life, and yet all of us to act in co-operation with our fellows, to be able to…

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