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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 10, 1903

I believe in you, my countrymen; I believe in our people, and therefore I believe that they will dare to be great.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 10, 1903

To pin those cards up there is as much out of place as if you tacked so many tin cans up there.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 10, 1903

I do not know of anything that bids better for our material well-being than the tree culture;

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

Our aim must be to hand over to our children not an impoverished but an improved heritage.

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

It is the first time I ever was in your great and beautiful State; and but a few hours ago I saw for the first time the greatest of all the oceans.

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

I am, as you gentlemen probably know, exceedingly interested in the question of forestry preservation.

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

If any one lies, if he has the habit of untruthfulness, you cannot deal with him, because there is nothing to depend on.

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

The qualities needed to solve aright the problems of today are the same qualities that were needed by the men who in 1861 found themselves confronted with the question of whether or not this country should remain all united and free, or…

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