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Honor to us if we treat your great deeds as spurring us onward; and shame to us if we treat your great deeds as excuses for our own idleness or folly.
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gutenberg.orgTeddy Roosevelt: “Honor to us if we treat your great deeds as spurring us onward; and shame to us if we treat your great deeds as excuses…”
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Roosevelt calls for honoring the deeds of past heroes as motivation for current generations.
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