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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 28, 1903

We need cool-headed, sane common sense in dealing with the problems that confront the nation.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 28, 1903

I am particularly glad to have the chance to speak to you here in this city, in Utah, this morning.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 28, 1903

Far from agriculture properly exhausting the land, it is always the sign of a vicious system of agriculture if the land is rendered poorer by it.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 28, 1903

In accordance with the provisions of section 2253 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and by the authority therein given, it is hereby ordered that the land included within the following boundaries and being a portion of the…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 28, 1903

After the farmer has had the farm for his life he should be able to hand it to his children as a better farm than it was when he had it.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 27, 1903

Much can be done by the aid of the government, by the aid of the State; but, after all, the fundamental thing in bringing success to any community is the quality of the average man, the average woman, in that community.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 27, 1903

In this country we need above all things to show our power to act on one's own individual responsibility, each to care for himself, to be able to handle his own life, and yet all of us to act in co-operation with our fellows, to be able to…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 27, 1903

The citizen who counts in the development of the state is the man or woman who makes this his or her home.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 27, 1903

I congratulate you upon the output from the mines, next the ranches, but most of all the children.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 27, 1903

Our object should be sedulously to provide against letting great tracts of land go into the hands of any one man or of any one corporation.

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