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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 4, 1903

I congratulate you upon all that has been done, and I am certain that the future will far more than make good the past.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 4, 1903

Of all the work that is done or that can be done for our country, the greatest is that of educating the body, the mind, and above all the character, giving spiritual and moral training to those who in a few years are themselves to decide…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 4, 1903

There was in the regiment but one kind of rivalry among those men, and but one would have been tolerated.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 4, 1903

I appreciate to the full all the difficulties under which you labor, and I think that your progress has been astonishing.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 3, 1903

The object of the law is to provide small irrigated farms to actual settlers, to actual home-makers; the land is given away ultimately in small tracts under the terms of the homestead act, the settlers repaying the cost of bringing water…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· May 3, 1903

The policy is a policy of encouragement to the home-maker, to the man who comes to establish his home.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Apr 29, 1903

Great peoples must have in addition the governmental capacity which comes only when individuals fully recognize their duties to one another and to the whole body politic.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Apr 29, 1903

We have met here today to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the event which more than any other, after the foundation of the Government and always excepting its preservation, determined the character of our national life—determined…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Apr 29, 1903

This work of expansion was by far the greatest work of our people during the years that intervened between the adoption of the Constitution and the outbreak of the Civil War.

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

Our currency laws have been recently improved by specific declarations intended to secure permanency of values; but this does not imply that these laws may not be further improved and strengthened.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Dec 21, 1902

It is hereby ordered that all that portion of the White Mountain or San Carlos Indian Reservation in the Territory of Arizona lying within the following described boundaries be, and the same hereby is, restored to the public domain, to wit

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Dec 9, 1902

I transmit herewith a report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, relative to the proceedings of the International Congress for the Study of the Production and Consumption of Coffee.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Dec 1, 1902

Our aim should be not by unwise tariff changes to give foreign products the advantage over domestic products.

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