Political Quotes

On the recordDecember 16, 1906
To have yielded to the natural impatience of ill-informed outsiders and begun all kinds of experiments in work prior to a thorough sanitation of the Isthmus, would have been disastrous.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Message to Congress After Returning from the Canal Zone in Panama

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