Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election, and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result.

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Remarks at the Lincoln Dinner of the Republican Club in New York City

02/12/1905

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