Teddy Roosevelt said "We have met here today to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the event which more than any other, after the foundation of the Government and always excepting its preservation, determined the character of our national life—determined that we should be a great expanding Nation instead of relatively a small and stationary one" @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordApril 29, 1903

We have met here today to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the event which more than any other, after the foundation of the Government and always excepting its preservation, determined the character of our national life—determined that we should be a great expanding Nation instead of relatively a small and stationary one

Said by

Teddy Roosevelt

Republican · New York

Source

presidency.ucsb.edu

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Dedication Ceremonies of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri

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