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Teddy Roosevelt: “It speaks well for our nation that men and women should desire during their lives to devote the fortunes which they were…”

On the recordMay 11, 1903
It speaks well for our nation that men and women should desire during their lives to devote the fortunes which they were able to acquire or to inherit because of our system of government, to objects so entirely worthy and so entirely admirable as the foundation of a great seat of learning such as this.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks at Leland Stanford Jr. University in Palo Alto, California

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