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Teddy Roosevelt: “Let us be true to ourselves, for we cannot then be false to any man.”

On the recordMarch 16, 1905
Let us be true to ourselves, for we cannot then be false to any man.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the 121st Annual Dinner of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in New York City

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