Whether we wish it or not we have to be a great power; we have to play a great part.
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Remarks at the Laying of the Cornerstone of the Lewis and Clark Memorial in Portland, Oregon
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We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far as is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he renders service.
Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress, do proclaim that the said lands are hereby added to the Trinity National Forest
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.





