Teddy Roosevelt: “The man who builds up is greater than he who tears down.”

On the recordMay 16, 1902

The man who builds up is greater than he who tears down.

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Republican · New York

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Remarks at the Exercises of the Society of the Army of the Cumberland, Attending the Reburial of Major General William Stark...

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