Political Quotes

On the recordJune 27, 1905
We need men with these ideals in public life, and we need them just as much in business and in such a profession as the law.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks at the Alumni Dinner of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts

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