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Teddy Roosevelt: “We don't know the cost, but we know that it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result.”

On the recordMay 22, 1903
We don't know the cost, but we know that it will be more than repaid ten times over by the result.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks at the Alaskan Reception in Seattle, Washington

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