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On the recordSeptember 6, 1903
We can keep our government on a sane and healthy basis, we can make and keep our social system what it should be, only on condition of judging each man, not as a member of a class, but on his worth as a man.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks at the State Fair in Syracuse, New York

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