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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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Dec 5, 1904

They have under no circumstances the right to commit violence upon these, whether capitalists or wage-workers, who refuse to support their organizations, or who side with those with whom they are at odds.

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Dec 5, 1904

It is an absurdity to expect to eliminate the abuses in great corporations by State action.

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Dec 5, 1904

The cost of doing Government business should be regulated with the same rigid scrutiny as the cost of doing a private business.

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Dec 5, 1904

It is a mere truism to say that every nation, whether in America or anywhere else, which desires to maintain its freedom, its independence, must ultimately realize that the right of such independence can not be separated from the…

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Dec 5, 1904

There should be severe child-labor and factory-inspection laws.

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Dec 5, 1904

Many times peoples who were slothful or timid or shortsighted, who had been enervated by ease or by luxury, or misled by false teachings, have shrunk in unmanly fashion from doing duty that was stern and that needed self-sacrifice.

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Nov 28, 1904

and when such conference does not result in agreement the case shall be presented to the Attorney-General for his opinion.

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Nov 28, 1904

Substitute watchmen in the Government Printing Office will hereafter be regarded as classified under the civil-service rules.

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Nov 28, 1904

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Modoc Forest Reserve.

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Nov 28, 1904

The reservation hereby established shall be known as The Warner Mountains Forest Reserve.

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Nov 28, 1904

No person shall be appointed or employed in any Executive Department or office for the performance of any service of the character performed by classified employees except in accordance with the provisions of the civil-service rules;

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Nov 28, 1904

The forty persons named in the list transmitted to the Civil Service Commission by the Public Printer under date of October 4, 1904, now serving in that office, will be treated as classified in accordance with section 6, Rule II…

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Nov 28, 1904

before making any appointment or employment for service with respect to which there may be reasonable doubt as to the requirement of examination the head of the Department or office shall confer with the Civil Service Commission for the…

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Nov 25, 1904

One of your publicists has used the expression the 'peace of justice,' and I am particularly pleased at what you said as to the efforts of this country to bring about throughout the world the 'peace of justice.'

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Nov 25, 1904

I wish to thank you from my heart for the kind words that you have just spoken.

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Nov 25, 1904

I wish to propose a toast to President Loubet and the French nation and may the bonds of friendship that have ever united them with the United States of America be even tightened in the future.

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Nov 21, 1904

This is the first arid will be the only time during my Presidency that I shall ever introduce a speaker to an audience; and I am more than glad to do it in this instance.

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Nov 21, 1904

It is not of the slightest use to hear the word, if you do not try to put it into effect afterward.

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Nov 21, 1904

No republic can permanently exist when it becomes a republic of classes.

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Nov 21, 1904

I had long known of the very admirable work done with singular modesty and self-effacement by Mr. Downey in trying to give homes to the homeless.

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Nov 19, 1904

I do not care very much for the coward or the moral weakling.

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Nov 19, 1904

We have grown to accept it as an axiomatic truth of our American life that the man is to be treated on his worth as a man.

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