The West will shape our destinies because she will have more people and a greater territory, and because the whole development of the Western country is such as to make it peculiarly the exponent of all that is most vigorously and characteristically American in our national life.
From his essay "The Strenuous Life," Roosevelt explains why the West, with its growing population and unique development, will define America's future.
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