Teddy Roosevelt: “We are proud now of what our fathers did in the days that tried men's souls.”

No man is worth his salt in public life who makes on the stump a pledge which he does not keep after election; and, if he makes such a pledge and does not keep it, hunt him out of public life.

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by an Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, 'An Act Making appropriations…

Practical equality of opportunity for all citizens, when we achieve it, will have two great results.

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