By our prompt and decisive action, not only have our interests and those of the world at large been conserved, but we have forestalled complications which were likely to be fruitful in loss to ourselves, and in bloodshed and suffering to the people of the Isthmus.
Roosevelt highlights the importance of decisive action to prevent complications in the Isthmus.
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Therefore I hope that so far as possible the people may be given the chance, through direct primaries, to express their preference as to who shall be the nominee of the Republican Presidential Convention.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
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 examples for the future.
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