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On the recordMay 18, 1903
I do not care how moral a man is, if his morality is only good while he sits at home in his own parlor, you can do nothing with him.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Address at the Capitol Building in Sacramento, California

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Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, 'An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,' do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of lands, in the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, shown as the Zuni National Forest on the two parts of the said diagram.

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