Each body of immigrants, each element that has thus been added to our national strain, has contributed something of value to the national character; and to no element do we owe more than we owe to that element represented by those whom I have the honor this day of addressing.
Roosevelt emphasizes the value of diverse immigrant contributions to American society.
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Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.
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I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as examples for the future.
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