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Teddy Roosevelt: “Leadership is of avail only so far as there is wise and resolute public sentiment behind it.”

On the recordOctober 14, 1903
Leadership is of avail only so far as there is wise and resolute public sentiment behind it.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the Unveiling of the Sherman Statue in Washington, DC

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