Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

As you have for your good fortune been placed down in this beautiful region with its wonderful climate, with its soil, with all the chance for development that it offers, so we have a right to expect a particularly high type of American citizenship from you.

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Address at Santa Barbara, California

05/08/1903

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