“Death is always and under all circumstances a tragedy, for if it is not, then it means that life itself has become one.”

— Theodore Roosevelt, Letter to Cecil Spring-Rice, 12 March 1900

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1858 – 1919

Twenty-sixth President of the United States, known for his 1910 speech "Citizenship in a Republic".

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