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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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May 29, 1907

For he died in the fulness of time, serving his country with entire devotion—a death that every man may well envy.

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May 29, 1907

There will be no halt in the forward movement toward a full development of this policy.

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May 29, 1907

To them it was given to perform the one feat with which no other feat can be compared, for to them it was given to preserve the Union.

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May 29, 1907

There can be no halt in the course we have deliberately elected to pursue, the policy of asserting the right of the Nation, so far as it has the power, to supervise and control the business use of wealth, especially in its corporate form.

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May 29, 1907

Today I wish to say a word to you about the first and most important feature of this task, the control of the common carriers doing an interstate business, a control absolutely vested in the Nation.

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May 29, 1907

There must be vested in the Federal Government a full power of supervision and control over the railways doing interstate business.

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May 29, 1907

There must be progressive legislative and administrative action for the correction of the evils which every sincere man must admit to have existed in railroad management in the past.

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May 29, 1907

The hero whose monument we today unveil, by his life bore singular testimony to the completeness of the reunion.

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May 20, 1907

The Secretary of the Interior shall make and publish such rules and regulations as may be necessary and proper to carry into full force and effect the manner of settlement, occupation and entry as herein provided for.

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May 20, 1907

All persons are especially admonished from attempting to settle upon, occupy, or improve any of these lands prior to August 23, 1907, except those making entry in accordance with the terms of this Proclamation.

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May 20, 1907

I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, in furtherance of the provisions of said act of April 27, 1904, do hereby declare and make known that the lands shown upon the approved farm unit plats of said Huntley Project will, on…

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May 20, 1907

Any person filing more than one affidavit, or in other than his true name, shall be denied any privilege he might otherwise have secured under this drawing.

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Jan 22, 1907

it is as absurd for the United States to depend upon foreign ships to distribute its products as it would be for a department store to depend upon wagons of a competing house to deliver its goods.

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Jan 22, 1907

To fail to establish adequate lines on the Pacific is equivalent to proclaiming to the world that we have neither the ability nor the disposition to contend for our rightful share of the commerce of the Orient;

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Jan 22, 1907

I earnestly hope for the enactment of some law like the bill in question.

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Jan 13, 1907

The facts did not merely warrant the action I took--they rendered such action imperative unless I was to prove false to my sworn duty.

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Jan 13, 1907

The suggestion is on its face so ludicrously impossible that it is difficult to treat it as honestly made.

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Jan 13, 1907

it would, of course, be impossible to preserve discipline in the Army save by pursuing precisely the course that in this case was pursued.

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Jan 11, 1907

The point to be especially emphasized is that prompt action must be taken, if any; otherwise the conditions may become so extreme as to be impracticable of remedy.

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Jan 11, 1907

Nature has through many centuries protected this great depression from overflow, but the restless river, constantly shifting, has annually threatened to break through the banks.

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Jan 11, 1907

The making of this cut in a bank composed of light alluvial soil above a depression such as this without controlling devices was criminal negligence.

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Jan 11, 1907

The results have been highly alarming, as it appears that if the water is not checked it will cut a very deep channel which, progressing upstream in a series of cataracts, will result in conditions such that the water can not be diverted…

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