Teddy Roosevelt: “Base is the man who inflicts wrong, and base is the man who suffers a…”

On the recordMay 20, 1903

Base is the man who inflicts wrong, and base is the man who suffers a wrong to be done him.

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Republican · New York

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Remarks at the Laying of the Cornerstone of the Lewis and Clark Memorial in Portland, Oregon

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Teddy Roosevelt: “Base is the man who inflicts wrong, and base is the man who suffers a wrong to be done him.”