Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I am anxious that our laws should be framed in the interest of those who intend to go there and stay there and bring up their children there and make it in very fact as well as in name an integral part of this Republic.

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Remarks to the Arctic Brotherhood in Seattle, Washington

05/22/1903

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