Letter to Kermit Roosevelt
11/09/1904
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I care for the great deeds of the past chiefly as spurs to drive us onward in the present.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood.
One of the chief principles for which I have stood, and for which I now stand, and which I have always endeavored and al...
The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride, he will see to it that others receive the li...