Political Quotes

On the recordMay 8, 1903
I have come from the Atlantic across the continent, and here I am addressing an American audience with the same ideals, the same aspirations, the same hopes, the same purposes, that the audiences have on the Atlantic seaboard, or in the Mississippi Valley.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks at Surf, California

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