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ROOSEVELT, Theodore. Two documents signed ("Theodore Roosevelt"), n.d. ONE WITH TWO-LINE AUTOGRAPH ENDORSEMENT REGARDING THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. Together two pages, 8vo and 4to . THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S SENTIMENTS ON LINCOLN AND THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS. At the bottom of the first document -- a typed text of the Gettysburg Address -- Roosevelt writes, "I believe that this was the greatest speech ever made." The second document contains a lengthy quotation on Lincoln's greatness to which TR affixed his signature: "No more practical man ever lived than this homely backwoods idealist; but he had nothing in common with those practical men whose consciences are warped until they fail to distinguish between good and evil, fail to understand that strength, ability, shrewdness, whether in the world of business or of politics, only serve to make that possessor a more noxious, a more evil member of the community, if they are not guided and controlled by a fine and high moral sense..." Together 2 items . (2)