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Teddy Roosevelt: “Face the problem; realize its gravity, and then approach it in a spirit that will keep it ever in mind that if we are to…”

On the recordAugust 27, 1902
Face the problem; realize its gravity, and then approach it in a spirit that will keep it ever in mind that if we are to succeed at all, it must be by each doing to the best of his capacity his own business, and yet by each remembering that in a sense he is also his brother's keeper.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the State Fair Grounds in Concord, New Hampshire

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