We can succeed only by seeing to it that the children, the boys and the girls, who in ten or fifteen or twenty years will be the men and women who will then control affairs, are so trained that they can do their part well in the work of self-government under free institutions.
Remarks in Wichita Falls, Texas
Share & report
More from Teddy Roosevelt
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles.
A broken promise is bad enough in private life. It is worse in the field of politics.
Therefore I hope that so far as possible the people may be given the chance, through direct primaries, to express their preference as to who shall be the nominee of the Republican Presidential Convention.
I absolutely agree with you that this matter is not one to be decided with any reference to the personal preferences or interests of any man, but purely from the standpoint of the interests of the people as a whole.
Other voices in this conversation
