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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Oct 19, 1905

The fearless condemnation of what is wrong; the standing up for what is decent, for what is straight.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Oct 19, 1905

I want to say that one of the great reasons why I like what he has written is because after reading it I rise up with the purpose of being a better man.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Oct 19, 1905

There is nothing that the islands need more than to have their great natural resources developed.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Oct 18, 1905

We can not afford to wait longer before assuming control, in the interest of the public, of these forests.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Oct 18, 1905

We despise the boy who treats the fact that his father counted for something as being an excuse for his counting for nothing.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Oct 18, 1905

I realize to the full, as does every good citizen, that there must be a foundation of material prosperity upon which to build the welfare of State or nation.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Oct 18, 1905

Our main object should be to strive to keep the reign of justice alive in this country.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Oct 18, 1905

The man who fails to be honest and brave both in his political franchise and in his private business contributes to political and social anarchy.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Oct 18, 1905

The man who would teach either wage worker or capitalist that the other is his foe is a bad citizen and a faithless American.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Oct 18, 1905

I am glad to say that going through your State the children seem to be all right in quality and quantity, and I congratulate you on them.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Oct 18, 1905

The valor shown alike by the men of the North and the men of the South as they battled for the right as God gave them to see the right, is now part of what we, all of us, keep with pride.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Oct 18, 1905

Government supervision is needed quite as much in the interest of the big shipper and of the railroad man who want to do right as in the interest of the small shipper and the consumer.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Oct 18, 1905

The worst thing that you can do for a child is to bring him or her up so as to dodge difficulties.

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