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Remarks in Newport, New Hampshire

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Mar 1, 1909

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress, do proclaim that the said lands are hereby added to the Trinity National Forest

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The farmer should realize that the person who most needs consideration on the farm is his wife.

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The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.

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I do not believe in the doctrine that to the victor belong the spoils; but I think even less of the doctrine that the spoils shall be divided without a fight by the professional politicians on both sides.

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