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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Jun 12, 1902

Warning is hereby expressly given to all persons not to make settlement upon the lands reserved by this proclamation.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Jun 12, 1902

It is earnestly to be hoped that we will complete in the same spirit the record so well begun, and show in our dealings with Cuba that steady continuity of policy which it is essential for our nation to establish in foreign affairs if we…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Jun 12, 1902

We are bound by every consideration of honor and expediency to pass commercial measures in the interest of her material well being.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Jun 12, 1902

it is hereby ordered that the existing boundaries of the Wakeeney land district and of the Colby land district, in the State of Kansas, be, and they are hereby, changed and re-established by the transfer from the Wakeeney land district to…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Jun 12, 1902

Our soldiers fought to give her freedom; and for three years our representatives, civil and military, have toiled unceasingly, facing disease of a peculiarly sinister and fatal type, with patient and uncomplaining fortitude, to teach her…

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Jun 12, 1902

I ask this aid for her, because she is weak, because she needs it, because we have already aided her.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Jun 12, 1902

I ask for her certain special economic concessions in return; these economic concessions to benefit us as well as her.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Jun 12, 1902

In the case of Cuba, however, there are weighty reasons of morality and of national interest why the policy should be held to have a peculiar application.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Jun 12, 1902

In my judgment no American industry will be hurt, and many American industries will be benefited by the proposed action.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Jun 12, 1902

It is to our advantage as a nation that the growing Cuban market should be controlled by American producers.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Jun 10, 1902

Here we care nothing for the boy's birthplace, nor his creed, nor his social standing.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Jun 10, 1902

It will be more difficult in the future than ever before to know your profession, and more essential also;

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Jun 10, 1902

During that century no other educational institution in the land has contributed as many names as West Point to the honor roll of the nation's greatest citizens.

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Teddy Roosevelt
@teddyroosevelt· Republican · NY· Jun 4, 1902

Pay all possible heed to the scientific side of your work; perfect yourselves as scientific men able to work with the best and most delicate apparatus; and never for one moment forget—especially the higher officers among you—that in time…

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