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Teddy Roosevelt: “What we need is not genius, not brilliancy, but the ordinary commonplace virtues that every man or woman can have, if…”

On the recordOctober 22, 1905
What we need is not genius, not brilliancy, but the ordinary commonplace virtues that every man or woman can have, if only he or she will.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks in Flomaton, Alabama

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