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Teddy Roosevelt: “In the nation as in the individual, in the long run it is character that counts.”

On the recordOctober 30, 1908
In the nation as in the individual, in the long run it is character that counts.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Proclamation 822—Thanksgiving Day, 1908

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