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Teddy Roosevelt: “Our country has been populated by pioneers, and therefore it has in it more energy, more enterprise, more expansive…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1900
Our country has been populated by pioneers, and therefore it has in it more energy, more enterprise, more expansive power than any other in the wide world.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York
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Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt asserts that the pioneer heritage has endowed America with unique national energy and expansive power.

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