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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 20, 1902

But in addition to dying for the nation you must be willing and anxious to live for the nation, or the nation will be badly off.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 19, 1902

It is an admirable thing to have wealth if we use it aright and understand its relative value compared to the things of the spirit.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 19, 1902

Honor, thrice honor to those who for three generations, during the period of this people's great expansion, have seen that the force of the living truth expanded as the nation expanded!

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 19, 1902

It is a pleasure on behalf of the people of the United States to greet you and bid you welcome on this hundredth anniversary.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 19, 1902

We intend to see that it has all the aid we can give it, and I trust and believe that our people will, through their national legislature, see to it very shortly that Cuba has the advantage of entering into peculiarly close relations with…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 19, 1902

We have a right to expect that you will show your faith by your works; that the people who have the inestimable advantages of the church-life and the home-life should be made to remember that as much has been given them, much will be…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 19, 1902

Every earnest and zealous believer, every man or woman who is a doer of the word and not a hearer only, is a lifelong missionary in his or her field of labor—a missionary by precept, and, by what counts a thousand fold more than precept…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 19, 1902

It is well for us that when there comes a great work in peace or in war we have the army as an instrument for it.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 19, 1902

We must have thrift, business energy, business enterprise and all that spring from them, as the foundation upon which we are to build the great national superstructure.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 19, 1902

Napoleon said that in war the moral was to the material as ten to one; and it is just exactly as true in civil and social life.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 16, 1902

The loyalty that counts is the loyalty which shows itself in deeds rather than in words.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 16, 1902

Without the work that you did the work of the men who fought the Revolution to a successful close would have meant nothing.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 13, 1902

Nothing more need be said than has been said already by those who have addressed you this afternoon.

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