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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 29, 1907

We best serve the interests of the honest railway men when we announce that we will follow out precisely this course.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 29, 1907

There can be no swerving from the course that has thus been mapped out in the legislation actually enacted and in the messages in which I have asked for further legislation.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 29, 1907

To them it was given to perform the one feat with which no other feat can be compared, for to them it was given to preserve the Union.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 29, 1907

Today I wish to say a word to you about the first and most important feature of this task, the control of the common carriers doing an interstate business, a control absolutely vested in the Nation.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 29, 1907

The hero whose monument we today unveil, by his life bore singular testimony to the completeness of the reunion.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 20, 1907

All persons are especially admonished from attempting to settle upon, occupy, or improve any of these lands prior to August 23, 1907, except those making entry in accordance with the terms of this Proclamation.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 20, 1907

Any person filing more than one affidavit, or in other than his true name, shall be denied any privilege he might otherwise have secured under this drawing.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 20, 1907

The Secretary of the Interior shall make and publish such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper to carry into full force and effect the manner of settlement, occupation and entry as herein provided for.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 20, 1907

I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, in furtherance of the provisions of said act of April 27, 1904, do hereby declare and make known that the lands shown upon the approved farm unit plats of said Huntley Project will, on…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Jan 22, 1907

it is as absurd for the United States to depend upon foreign ships to distribute its products as it would be for a department store to depend upon wagons of a competing house to deliver its goods.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Jan 22, 1907

To fail to establish adequate lines on the Pacific is equivalent to proclaiming to the world that we have neither the ability nor the disposition to contend for our rightful share of the commerce of the Orient;

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Jan 13, 1907

it would, of course, be impossible to preserve discipline in the Army save by pursuing precisely the course that in this case was pursued.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Jan 13, 1907

The suggestion is on its face so ludicrously impossible that it is difficult to treat it as honestly made.

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