Proclamation 605—Thanksgiving Day, 1905
11/01/1905
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The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
We must drive the special interests out of politics.
I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
I stand for the square deal.