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Teddy Roosevelt: “The country will be all right if the average man is decent and clean in his home life.”

On the recordOctober 24, 1905
The country will be all right if the average man is decent and clean in his home life.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks at the City Park in Little Rock, Arkansas

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