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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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Aug 30, 1910

Every special interest is entitled to justice—full, fair, and complete—and, now, mind you, if there were any attempt by mob-violence to plunder and work harm to the special interest, whatever it may be, that I most dislike, and the wealthy…

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Aug 30, 1910

I speak of the men of the past partly that they may be honored by our praise of them, but more that they may serve as examples for the future.

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Apr 22, 1910

Shame on the man of cultivated taste who permits refinement to develop into a fastidiousness that unfits him for doing the rough work of a workaday world.

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Apr 22, 1910

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.

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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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Apr 22, 1910

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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Apr 22, 1910

Character must show itself in the man's performance both of the duty he owes himself and of the duty he owes the State.

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Apr 22, 1910

We are bound in honor to strive to bring ever nearer the day when, as far as is humanly possible, we shall be able to realize the ideal that each man shall have an equal opportunity to show the stuff that is in him by the way in which he…

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Apr 22, 1910

France is one of these nations. For her to sink would be a loss to all the world.

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Apr 22, 1910

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.

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Mar 1, 1909

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…

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Mar 1, 1909

The public good will be promoted by including in the Apache National Forest certain lands within the Territory of Arizona.

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Mar 1, 1909

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, do proclaim that the said lands are…

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Mar 1, 1909

By virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, 'An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June…

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Mar 1, 1909

I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested... do proclaim that the said lands are hereby added to the Apache National Forest.

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Mar 1, 1909

The boundaries of said National Forest are now as shown on the said diagram.

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Mar 1, 1909

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by an Act of Congress, approved June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, entitled, 'An Act Making appropriations…

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Mar 1, 1909

Now, Therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress, do proclaim that the said lands are hereby added to the Trinity National Forest

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Mar 1, 1909

By virtue of the power in me vested by the Act of Congress, I do proclaim that the said lands are hereby added to the Sitgreaves National Forest

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Mar 1, 1909

Such National Forest so enlarged shall, except as hereinafter provided, be subject to all the laws affecting National Forests.

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Feb 26, 1909

public interests require that the Senate of the United States be convened at 12 o'clock on the 4th day of March next to receive such communications as may be made by the Executive

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Feb 26, 1909

Warning is expressly given to all persons not to commit any of the acts herein enumerated and which are prohibited by law.

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