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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Dec 5, 1904

The safety-appliance law, as amended by the act of March 2, 1903, has proved beneficial to railway employees.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Dec 5, 1904

They have under no circumstances the right to commit violence upon these, whether capitalists or wage-workers, who refuse to support their organizations, or who side with those with whom they are at odds.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Dec 5, 1904

Many times peoples who were slothful or timid or shortsighted, who had been enervated by ease or by luxury, or misled by false teachings, have shrunk in unmanly fashion from doing duty that was stern and that needed self-sacrifice.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Dec 5, 1904

Our peculiar form of government, with its sharp division of authority between the Nation and the several States, has been on the whole far more advantageous to our development than a more strongly centralized government.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Dec 5, 1904

The cost of doing Government business should be regulated with the same rigid scrutiny as the cost of doing a private business.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Dec 5, 1904

In the matter of speed and comfort of railway travel our railroads give at least as good service as those of any other nation.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Dec 5, 1904

It is a mere truism to say that every nation, whether in America or anywhere else, which desires to maintain its freedom, its independence, must ultimately realize that the right of such independence can not be separated from the…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Dec 5, 1904

Such prosperity is of course primarily due to the high individual average of our citizenship, taken together with our great natural resources.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Dec 5, 1904

It is an absurdity to expect to eliminate the abuses in great corporations by State action.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Dec 5, 1904

Of course any violence, brutality, or corruption, should not for one moment be tolerated.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Dec 5, 1904

Wage-workers have an entire right to organize and by all peaceful and honorable means to endeavor to persuade their fellows to join with them in organizations.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Nov 28, 1904

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Warner Mountains Forest Reserve.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Nov 28, 1904

No person shall be appointed or employed in any Executive Department or office for the performance of any service of the character performed by classified employees except in accordance with the provisions of the civil-service rules;

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