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Teddy Roosevelt: You do not need any of you to be told that in private life you will often resent an insult quite as much as an injury…

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You do not need any of you to be told that in private life you will often resent an insult quite as much as an injury; and our public speakers and writers need to steadily keep before their minds the thought that no possible good can come to us by speaking offensively of any one else; while trouble may come.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt highlights the importance of avoiding offensive speech about others to prevent conflict.

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