Teddy Roosevelt: “We of the United States owe the fact that to-day we have a country to what they did; and the Nation has decreed by law…”

“We of the United States owe the fact that to-day we have a country to what they did; and the Nation has decreed by law that no one of them, if disabled from earning his own living, shall lack the pension to which he is entitled, not only as a matter of gratitude, but as a matter of justice.”