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Teddy Roosevelt: “If the average husband and wife fulfil their duties toward one another and toward their children as Christianity teaches…”

On the recordJanuary 25, 1905
If the average husband and wife fulfil their duties toward one another and toward their children as Christianity teaches them, then we may rest absolutely assured that the other problems will solve themselves.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Remarks to a Committee of the Inter-Church Conference on Marriage and Divorce at the White House

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