Special Message
12/14/1903
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The American people are to be heartily congratulated on everything of importance that has been done in connection with t...
Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing t...
I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as ex...
I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested... do proclaim tha...