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Teddy Roosevelt: “There is nothing more foolish, nothing less dignified than to indulge in boastfulness, in self-glorification as to the…”

On the recordMay 13, 1903
There is nothing more foolish, nothing less dignified than to indulge in boastfulness, in self-glorification as to the capacity of our soldiers and sailors while denying them the material which we are in honor bound to give them in order that their splendid natural qualities shall be fitly supplemented.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

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

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