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Teddy Roosevelt: “We need the development of men in the open country, who will be in the future, as in the past, the stay and strength of…”

On the recordFebruary 8, 1909
We need the development of men in the open country, who will be in the future, as in the past, the stay and strength of the nation in time of war, and its guiding and controlling spirit in time of peace.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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