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

I wish you, the Forest Rangers, and also all the others, to protect the game and wild creatures.

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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

I cannot say how I have appreciated being here in your beautiful State and your beautiful city.

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

The thing that has impressed me most is that I am speaking to Americans just as I speak in any other section of the country!

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

The first thing that the individual man has to do is to pull his own weight, to earn his own way, not to be a drag on the community.

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

We are living right in the middle of them now, only we are living under pleasanter auspices.

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

It is, of course, the merest truism to say that important though it is to develop factories, railroads, farms, commerce, the thing that counts is the development of citizenship.

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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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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

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

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

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

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

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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