The engineers making the preliminary examinations continually emphasize this need and urge that the remaining public lands at the headwaters of the important streams of the West be reserved to insure permanency of water supply for irrigation.
Roosevelt points out that engineers stress the necessity of reserving public lands to ensure a stable water supply for irrigation.
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I wish to say that the Progressive Party is making its appeal to all our fellow citizens without any regard to their creed or to their birthplace.
A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.
The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride, he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own.
Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.
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