Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

They are a masterful race of rugged character—a race the qualities of whose womanhood have become proverbial, while its men have the elemental, the indispensable virtues of working hard in time of peace and fighting hard in time of war.

Context

Remarks at the 121st Annual Dinner of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick in New York City

03/16/1905

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