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Teddy Roosevelt: “I need not tell you that what really counts in any State is the character of the men and women who make up that State.”

On the recordApril 4, 1905
I need not tell you that what really counts in any State is the character of the men and women who make up that State.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Remarks in South McAlester, Indian Territory

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