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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 8, 1903

If any one lies, if he has the habit of untruthfulness, you cannot deal with him, because there is nothing to depend on.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 8, 1903

You can pardon most anything in a man who will tell the truth, because you know where that man is; you know what he means.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 7, 1903

I cannot say how I have appreciated being here in your beautiful State and your beautiful city.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 7, 1903

We can solve aright all the difficult problems that come up because of and through our modern civilization.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 7, 1903

Any man who claims that there can be liberty in spite of and against the law is claiming that anarchy is liberty.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 7, 1903

The first thing that the individual man has to do is to pull his own weight, to earn his own way, not to be a drag on the community.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 7, 1903

To think of the well-nigh incredible fact that all of this that I have been looking at—the city, the development of the country—that it has all occurred within twenty years.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 7, 1903

I always envy you men of the Grand Army because you do not have to preach; you practiced.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 7, 1903

We are living right in the middle of them now, only we are living under pleasanter auspices.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 7, 1903

In the war you had to have patriotism, but there was but little to be made of the man who was patriotic but who had a tendency to run away.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 7, 1903

Every college should strive to bring to development among the students the capacity to do good original work.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 7, 1903

Ours is a government of equal rights under the law, guaranteeing those rights to each man so long as he in his turn refrains from wronging his brother.

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