On the recordOctober 14, 1903
The life of duty, not the life of mere ease or mere pleasure—that is the kind of life which makes the great man as it makes the great nation.
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presidency.ucsb.eduThe life of duty, not the life of mere ease or mere pleasure—that is the kind of life which makes the great man as it makes the great nation.
Remarks at the Unveiling of the Sherman Statue in Washington, DC
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