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Teddy Roosevelt: “No laws, however good, can supply the lack of those qualities in any man.”

On the recordAugust 24, 1902
No laws, however good, can supply the lack of those qualities in any man.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Lynn, Massachusetts

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