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Teddy Roosevelt: A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.

On the recordAugust 30, 1910
A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks in Osawatomie, Kansas: The New Nationalism

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