Remarks in Joliet, Illinois
06/02/1903
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I deeply appreciate your letter, and I realize to the full the heavy responsibility it puts upon me.
Don’t you pity me. I am all right.
The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.
Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by...