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Teddy Roosevelt

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Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909. A member of the Republican Party, he was born on October 27, 1858, in New York. Roosevelt was a prominent leader of the Progressive Movement, advocating for domestic policies that included trust-busting, regulation of corporations, and conservation of natural resources. His administration is noted for significant reforms and the establishment of national parks and forests.

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Therefore, our promises may surely be trusted as regards any issue that is now before the people; and we may equally be trusted to deal with any problem which may hereafter arise.

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This Government has consistently demanded equal protection abroad for all American citizens, whether native or naturalized.

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Now to speak of the tariff in this sense as “robbery,” thereby giving it a moral relation, is not merely rhetorical; it is on its face false.

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The accumulated savings of the workingmen of the country, as shown by the deposits in the savings banks, have increased by leaps and bounds.

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The right and the responsibility must go hand in hand.

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But I felt that he possessed the high integrity which I demanded in the man who was to manage my campaign.

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For the first time the great business and the forest interests of the Nation have joined together, through delegates altogether worthy of the organizations they represent, to consider their individual and their common interests in the…

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It is a serious and dangerous thing for any man to tear loose from the soil, from the religion in which he and his forbears have taken root, and to be transplanted into a new land.

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But in endeavoring each to be his brother’s keeper it is wise to remember that each can normally do most for the brother who is his immediate neighbor.

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In closing I want to say one word upon success in life, upon the success that each of us should strive for.

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No wrongdoing is so abhorrent as wrongdoing by a man toward the wife and the children who should arouse every tender feeling in his nature.

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Into the woman’s keeping is committed the destiny of the generations to come after us.

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I want to have the battleships as a provocative for arbitration so far as the other man is concerned.

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Most emphatically we can not as good Americans bear hostility to any rich man as such any more than to any poor man as such.

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My experience has been that the man who talks over-loudly of his hostility to corporate wealth can not be trusted even to antagonize corporate wealth when it is wrong.

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In this country of ours the Government can no more rise higher than those who make it than a stream can rise higher than its source.

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The arrogance and the envy are not two different qualities; they are the same quality shown by men under different circumstances.

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If the power is granted me to create such a board, such a commission, or to continue in power, if I so desire, a commission or board with increased powers, I shall strive to appoint and retain men who will do exactly the same justice to…

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False hopes are always raised by any measure of reform, because there are always people who expect the impossible.

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If the measure which I advocate is enacted into law, a good many people will expect that it will bring the millennium considerably nearer than will prove to be the case.

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In other words, I shall strive to see that that branch of the Government with its increased power is administered as every branch of the Government ought to be administered—that is, in a spirit of striving to do exact justice to the men of…

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The greatest and most dangerous rock in the course of any republic is the rock of class hatred.

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But the first essential is the preservation of law and order, the suppression of violence by mobs or individuals.

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More and more as we increase in strength I hope to see a corresponding increase in the sober sense of responsibility which shall prevent us either injuring or insulting any other people.

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The same homely virtues apply in managing the life of a nation as in managing an individual’s life.

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