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Teddy Roosevelt: I only wish it had been possible to make it eight times as much instead.

On the recordMay 19, 1903
I only wish it had been possible to make it eight times as much instead.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks at Montague, California

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