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

We can go up—as we shall go up—only by each of us keeping in mind not merely his own rights, but his duties to his neighbors.

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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

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

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

We must play a big part. We can play it badly or play it well—but play it we have got to.

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

This government is not and never shall be a government either of a plutocracy or of a mob.

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

I do not have to tell you here that when you get irrigation fairly applied, rain is a poor substitute for it.

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

I think I was a pretty good American when I came, but I am going away a better American.

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

I do not believe that Congress has for many years passed any law relating to our internal development so wise as the irrigation law of a year ago.

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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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