The public appreciation of this fundamental truth that the water belongs to the people to be taken and put to beneficial use will wipe out many controversies which are at present so harmful to the development of the West.
Roosevelt believes that recognizing water as a public resource will resolve many conflicts in the West.
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Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.
I will accept the nomination for President if it is tendered to me, and I will adhere to this decision until the convention has expressed its preference.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
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