it is even a greater thing to be what all of us are—Americans.
Editor's note · Context
Address at Oakland, California
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I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, in virtue of the authority conferred upon me by the said Joint Resolution, do hereby set apart the twelfth day of February, nineteen hundred and nine, as a special legal holiday.
I do not believe in the doctrine that to the victor belong the spoils; but I think even less of the doctrine that the spoils shall be divided without a fight by the professional politicians on both sides.
The facts set forth in this report constitute an imperative call to action.





