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Teddy Roosevelt: It is just so in civil life, and the man has to be a decent man, a square man, a man who acts square by his neighbors…

On the recordMay 19, 1903
It is just so in civil life, and the man has to be a decent man, a square man, a man who acts square by his neighbors, fairly by the State, or he cannot amount to anything;
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks at Sisson, California

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