Special Message
01/03/1904
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Our country—this great Republic—means nothing unless it means the triumph of a real democracy, the triumph of popular go...
I deeply appreciate your letter, and I realize to the full the heavy responsibility it puts upon me.
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.