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Teddy Roosevelt: “I think there is but one class of people who deserve as well as the soldiers and those are they who teach the children…”

On the recordAugust 29, 1902
I think there is but one class of people who deserve as well as the soldiers and those are they who teach the children of the present how to be the masters of our country in the future.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Cornish, Vermont

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