If any one lies, if he has the habit of untruthfulness, you cannot deal with him, because there is nothing to depend on.
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Address at Ventura, California
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Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by section twenty-four of the Act of Congress, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled, 'An Act to repeal timber-culture laws, and for other purposes,' do proclaim that there are hereby reserved from settlement or entry and set apart as a public reservation, for the use and benefit of the people, all the tracts of lands, in the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico, shown as the Zuni National Forest on the two parts of the said diagram.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
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