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On the recordMay 13, 1903
It is absolutely essential, if we are to have the proper standard of public life, that promise shall be square with performance.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Address at the Banquet Tendered Him by the Union League Club of San Francisco, California

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