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I shall ask attention, not to Grant’s life, but to the lessons taught by that life as we of to-day should learn them.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt intends to focus on the lessons learned from Grant's life rather than recounting his biography.

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