Remarks in Manassas, Virginia
10/31/1902
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We must drive the special interests out of politics.
I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested... do proclaim tha...
The man who does nothing cuts the same sordid figure in the pages of history, whether he be cynic, or fop, or voluptuary...
I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.