Political Quotes

On the recordJune 24, 1902
He devoted himself as disinterestedly to the good of the Cuban people in all their relations as man could.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks at the Harvard Commencement Dinner in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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