On the recordJanuary 1, 1900
The least touch of flabbiness, of unhealthy softness, in either would have meant ruin for this nation, and therefore the downfall of the proudest hope of mankind.
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Roosevelt asserts that any weakness in the character of leaders like Washington or Lincoln would have led to national ruin and the failure of human progress.
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