Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I am glad to have the chance of acknowledging my obligations to him, and I am also glad that when I ask you to strive toward productive scholarship, toward productive citizenship, I can use the president of the university as an example.

Context

Remarks at Leland Stanford Jr. University in Palo Alto, California

05/11/1903

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