Message to Congress
06/12/1902
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I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
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 ex...
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 re...
Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by...