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Teddy Roosevelt: “All that the law can do is to try to secure a fair deal, to try to give each man a chance to show the stuff that is in…”

On the recordMay 27, 1903
All that the law can do is to try to secure a fair deal, to try to give each man a chance to show the stuff that is in him; and if the stuff is not in him you cannot get it out of him because it is not there.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in Glenn's Ferry, Idaho

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