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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 9, 1905

I am particularly pleased to greet the Harvard Club of Chicago again under as pleasant circumstances as I have ever had the pleasure of greeting them before

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 9, 1905

It is a mere truism to say that the most fertile country in the world will amount to nothing if you do not have the right type of citizenship in it, and you will not have the right type of citizenship if the proper care is not given to the…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 9, 1905

It is a great pleasure to greet you to-day and be once again in this fertile and beautiful State of Illinois.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 9, 1905

While prosperity is indispensable as the basis, as the foundation, it will not amount to anything if you do not build on that foundation.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 9, 1905

Personally, I believe that the Federal government must take an in creasing control over corporations.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 9, 1905

You raise a great many good crops in Illinois, but the best crop is the Illinois citizen.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 9, 1905

Our country is governed and under existing circumstances can only be governed, under the party system.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 9, 1905

No business community can permanently succeed if the average member of it does not possess a certain quantity of high ideals;

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 9, 1905

If there is not a foundation of material prosperity for the State, as for the individual, you cannot expect anything but unhappiness; but woe to the State, as woe to the individual, if material prosperity is all that is sought after.

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