Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

These same children are the men and women who, 15 or 20 years hence, will be shaping the destiny of this nation, and they will shape it well or ill, accordingly as they are now brought up.

Context

Remarks in North Adams, Massachusetts

06/21/1905

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