Teddy Roosevelt: “It is absolutely essential, if we are to have the proper standard of…”

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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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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Teddy Roosevelt: “It is absolutely essential, if we are to have the proper standard of public life, that promise shall be square with…”