Political Quotes

On the recordApril 4, 1905
A glorious memory is the best of all things for a nation, if the purpose of that nation is to try to rise level with that memory.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks in Dallas, Texas

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I am happy to report to you that the accompanying document shows in clearest fashion that the Congress was wise in the position it took, and that it would be an inexcusable folly to change from the proposed lock canal to a sea-level canal.

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Apr 22, 1910

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.

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The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary.

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