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Teddy Roosevelt: “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…”

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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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks at the Unveiling of the Sherman Statue in Washington, DC

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